> As far as I remember, the installer on the CD release was broken and a patch
> needed to be downloaded

It was the launcher (see comment #22).

> before you could install the game.

The original launcher failed under certain circumstances (see link in comment #22).

> Hyperion don't care about piracy any more?

They do: http://eab.abime.net/showpost.php?p=1059297 ;-)