You got the money,you got a good connection,you still can't play it,cuz your country's under economical bycott.... Sarcasm!.......
Update: My friends have played ACII on Xbox 360 w/o an Internet connection, and I've heard of X360 pirated copies... A plan to take PC out of gaming market?
[Edited by EngineFailure, 3/17/2010 4:36:05 PM]
I doubt that... Mainly it is simply to get rid of pirates, even though it may effect honest players, it is simply steps in taking DRM to more extreme levels.
One day all of the files will be encrypted or simply streamed to your computer while using a program which processes the data and streams it to your computer. The data will probably all be in one big file, and completely inaccessible to users. Sure, it may eat up more of your bandwidth then right now, but I don't doubt that one day it will work like that.