New digitally purchased copies of Diablo III

[Mavfin]

What on Earth?

This reminds me of buying a second WoW account and having that account restricted to effectively trial status for something like two weeks. Aside from 72 hours being shorter. But I don't see what the rationale is for restricting people from access to stuff they've paid for. Is this an anti-gold farmer measure?

The first I heard of this type of thing with D3 was not being able to use the real money auction house for three days after a digital purchase. My thought on that was that it probably had something to do with taking them that long to really verify a purchase as fully gone through. I'm thinking a similar thought process would be involved here. People were probably able to use some kind of fake or stolen information to make a digital purchase and then do something with it (I have no idea what harmful things were possible) before Blizzard would know. This way they get to verify before harmful acts are possible.

Most likely digital versions being bought with stolen credit cards, used to process/move stolen gold, then let go of when Blizzard gets the chargeback from the credit card company.