BeastMTL

BeastMTL

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Reply to Red Alert 3? in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

To those that think activation limits are not a big deal, check out this post on the spore forums. http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/list/6800.page

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Reply to They should change the name of "DRM" in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

EULA's are still something that is highly controversial and legally dubious. Many countries laws invalidate part or all of the different clauses in them. Another point of contention is that EULA are contract revisions after the fact and are not available for review until after purchase. Disagreeing to them does not entitle you to a refund (in reality if not in theory) , but renders the product unuseable. This could be interpreted as agreeing under duress. As for personal backu

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Reply to What would be viable copy protection? in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

I agree that limits at all is a bad idea. But if they insist on it, at least a cycling one is better than the current regime. The net effect of it though for myself, is that I am buying a lot less games now. EA and anything using Securom is now an automatic no-buy. Shame too as I was looking forward to many games like Sacred2,Dragon-Age, Dead space, etc. Not to mention any impulsive purchases are now out of the question.

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Reply to They should change the name of "DRM" in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

I have to disagree with ToJKa on the whole license issues. Copyright means legally that they have duplication/distribution rights, not useage rights. All copyright means is that users are not allowed to make copies except for personal use (backups) and are not allowed to distribute them. Doing so is then illegal and is the province of law enforcement and not content owners.

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Reply to What would be viable copy protection? in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

This whole DRM thing smacks of one thing to me, vigilantism. Companies are now trying to define their own copyright law and force users to accept them (EULA). Copyright enforcement is the responsibility of governement in each country said work is published in. Yet you find publishers trying to define their own international domain. As far as I'm concerned, EULA's are not valid as it is accepted at gun point (not literal, but taking money and then imposing rules after sale or y

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Reply to What would be viable copy protection? in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

First of all, that 1% of people used 3 installs is pure BS when the game has just released.. If that was 2-3 years ago, I'd be a bit more likely to acccept it. I would have bought spore on day 1 if it hadn't been for the DRM. My objections are threefold. 1. What happens in 2-4 years when I feel like playing it again ? In that time my hardware will have changed and a reformat is 99.99995% likely (it is windows after all). 2. Sec urom is

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A dangerous practice in Stardock Support General Stardock Forums

Sorry to bring this here, but this is a very dangerous practice.. Sending passwords over email is a huge security risk, not to mention a danger for scams. You guys should make a secure page to get these things done, and please, make it easy to find.. I hate getting the runaround. ---- Quote ---- Hi, Please send a change of email address request to our sales department. They can be reached at <A href="

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