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If altering game code is going to become illegal parse, are the game crack sites days all coming to an end? I have never downloaded a game in my life (other than a Demo or maybe Beta), but the thought of having to have the original on my desk gives me the creeps. I like to have my originals tucked safely away, while my backups are in a wallet if (or when) I need to reload windows and get the games re-installed. Let's be straight about this....Most downloaded WAREZ versions come pre-cracked anyway, I know as I've seen them being flogged at a local car boot sale. It's normally the genuine folks who are looking fo nocd cracks. The only problem I see is that having the crack enables you to sell the original and keep the game. While this is illegal, at least the person has bought the game in the first place, and thus the developer gets is money. I'm afraid honest people are few and far between nowadays. The fact is, when you can chip an x-box and buy an extra HD for peanuts, and then run hundreds of the latest titles from an option screen, it's just too tempting for many people, especially with games costing so much. There needs to be a radical new way in which we pay for and play our games. I purposely Don't own any console because it's more difficult to back-up the games. Unless I can make a back-up, I don't feel as though I OWN the game, if you see what I mean. I am reliant on the original not getting errors (rare I know, but it does happen). Console makers have to protect their products to a certain degree of course, but I've never bought any console since cartridge based ones. A cartridge is a solid piece of electronics that you feel is your own (sound like Gollum!), where as a cd is volatile media in my opinion. I know my veiws are sad and rather paranoid, but that is how I feel.
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