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Csimbi
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Ubi tried online security with Settlers and Assassin's Creed. Remember how that worked out?
I buy all the games on GOG.com - without all the security crap you yearn for. Anything less than that, I play at the neighbor. |
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Baconnaise
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I pirate every game that I'm interested in. If the game is any good (to me that is) then it gets purchased. My steam account is loaded down with indie bundles I don't play enough and titles like Anno 2070 (yea an ubi game which requires a launcher and special shit). The crap with Anno 2070 just brings the game down. I own all xpacs including rebellion for SoaSE. The game has no DRM but a serial for multiplayer.
DRM and issues resulting from DRM will hinder sales. I uninstalled dragonica from the kids comps and made them jump on the USA servers instead of EU since the client doesn't use a version of nguard (DRM anti hack). It caused nothing but problems. All the comps have malware bytes plus security essentials and firefox + no script/ad block. If something goes wrong it's usually our fault. The nguard and other software that is drm cause too many problems.
FYI I do usually pirate music to a degree. I own most of what I pirated though via actual vinyl, cassettes (wow still have these), and a huge CD collection via my teen years (300 or so late 80's early 90's I'm old). It saves the trouble of having to rip and convert all my crap if I can queue it up online these days. |
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Csimbi
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| Posted: Wed Aug 29, 2012 7:16 pm Post subject: |
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| Baconnaise wrote: | | FYI I do usually pirate music to a degree. I own most of what I pirated though via actual vinyl, cassettes (wow still have these), and a huge CD collection via my teen years (300 or so late 80's early 90's I'm old). It saves the trouble of having to rip and convert all my crap if I can queue it up online these days. |
In EU, laws are sane. Once you bought it, it's not piracy to download and use a copy (same with book, music, games, apps, etc) - depending of course on the license agreement. Also, any information found on the internet is not piracy, neither; it's available for free. Piracy is when you use something that does not belong to you or make it available to others.
I.e.
- you download a game from the internet -> not piracy (!)
- you play a game (that you downloaded from the internet) without having purchased the right to do so -> piracy
- you upload a game to the internet (with or without playing it) that is not yours -> piracy
However, according to this, I would be big time pirate, too - playing all those games at the neighbour, so I guess it's not a 100% true. |
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Baconnaise
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| I actually got a dmca notice recently after some of my e-books that I bought were on my web server. These were legit copies that I had in a folder with nothing linking so I could access it on my trip to my folks. Apparently they just scan whatever the hell they want and send auto dmca notices out. It's getting a little out of control imo. It used to be that ISP's would cut you off for port scanning in such a manner. I guess it's ok if a proxy agency does it. |
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Csimbi
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Sounds like you have a good case for a lawsuit.
Should teach them a lesson. |
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