Internet: 2 Ubisoft: 0
The internet scored its first point when the DRM was cracked almost immediately. This second failure is just going to motivate everyone, even those who actually bought the game, to download a torrented copy of the cracked version.
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/ubisoft-drm-internet-assass...
I'm inclined to think it's not completely cracked. I played a little with the network traffic and it's definitely encrypted/signed. Also one of the gnomes in the office had a go at reverse engineering it and as far as he's got so far he says it is pretty solidly done.
1) Many refuse to buy the game ONLY because of the DRM.
2) DRM Servers Crash
3) Game cracked almost immediately after launch.
4) Legitimate users download the crack.
Point 4 is awesome. I think Ubi should be sued because a legit user HAD to crack the game to play it with a bad internet connection / servers down, and got a virus, and sue ubi for the damages.