As a standard rule, and hopefully enforced as equally as possible, information on how to bypass purchasing, copy protections, and cheat detections will disappear quickly.
After all, this IS a computer owned/run by an upstanding games publishing company. Discussion as to how effective, fair, or desireable such things are will have no effect on whether or not Shrapnel should be willing to leave them in plain site on their Boards.
Now if you want to join me in the alt.hacker newsgroup, or my
www.alt-hacker.org site, I will be glad to discuss the subject further. (but be forwarned that in those forums I dont have to be so careful about what I might call someone)