No LAN in Starcraft 2 to prevent piracy

So the not so surprising shoe is dropped as to why Blizzard wants everyone to connect to battle.net to play Starcraft 2: to fight piracy.

Several Battle.net features like advanced communication options, achievements, stat-tracking, and more, require players to be connected to the service, so we're encouraging everyone to use Battle.net as much as possible to get the most out of StarCraft II.

I could care less about most of those features in Starcraft II though. The most effective way to communicate in a LAN is just yell at your buddy before throwing a beer bottle so the dumbass will build more tanks.