I think SecuRom is pretty useless/unnecessary since they won't benefit from it with the money they put into this.

From a personal point of view I've only had problems with it, nothing good have come out of it.

So in other words they make the time it takes to pirate it and make it working about 10mins longer if even that but makes the experience worse for the people who have actually bought the game, so is it actually worth it? They seem to think so at least.

That's at least what I think based on personal experience.