In the grand scheme of things, this is an admittedly silly story. It is, however, a necessary one, that might save you a headache or three later this month once StarCraft II rolls out.
If you plan on buying the game digitally, heads up: Blizzard is now allowing you to download the full client without having to pay up front. At 10:00 AM PDT on Tuesday, July 27, (launch day) you can then pay for StarCraft II and start playing immediately.
Unless you are getting a boxed copy, this is the way to go. We can only assume Blizzard's servers will be overloaded with people right around release, so getting the heavy lifting out of the way now will save you the agony of making a sandwich and having the download still remain on 47 percent complete.
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1:20 PM on 07.15.2010 | 
God damn me not playing an RTS for 7y years....
it will probably only be available through blizzards download service thing and blizzard see steam as competition for the new battle.net
Some rumor talking about Black Division starting they own DD service.
As far as I know, the official battle.net is at http://battle.net
Also, I haven't seen any news about this on the official bnet forums, the blizzard homepage or battle.net
http://whois.domaintools.com/battle.net
So who knows?
I'm not sure about Blizzard, but Steam uses a encryption method for preloaded games. As far as I know no Steam preloads have been cracked before release. When the game releases and you try to launch it, instead it will take like 10 or so minutes to decrypt the game before letting you play.