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Thats why I asked you, what your intepretation of the contract was.
The contract is an agreement on both parties you and the publisher, and only time you do this is by saying yes to the EULA. That is the contract, and your law says aslong as both parties agree you can make a backup of your software. But, if in the EULA it says it does not you cant.
If by law you are to make a backup of anything, then publishers would be breaking the law by selling software with protections in your country, since you cant easily make a backup.
Im not babbling on, im not giving my intepretation of things, im stating what is and how it is.
And its people who read one persons outrage about something then adopt it themselves without even thinking it out themselves, this leads to all these "Publishers are evil" threads, when as I said the publishers are not to blame entirely, but your ordinary people who download. If it wasnt for those ordinary people downloading, you may have seen more easier to use protections even simple ones.
Im having a debate here, not looking for a fight or a flame war, but it is suprising that many wont view other ideas or facts and think their way is the only way.
Just because I dont share the same ideal views as yourself or others, im supposedly noobish or not worth listening to?
There is always a 2nd side to everything, and I mean everything.
This is for everyone, if you start up a thread for discussion or debate, you must be willing to accept or debate about another persons view. If you dont you shouldnt start up these threads, as you will never get a 100% agreement on anything.
To sum up on this debate, ill put my main points across and leave it at that.
1. Starting up a group to bycott games with SF isnt the best way, not only will the publishers not care they wont listen to what you have to say then, they will view you as non-purchasee i.e. not worth time and money. Best thing to do is get your specs of your PC, with problems using SF protected games, your views both pros and cons and then send to Starforce or the publisher themselves, that way they can work out what is going wrong and correct it. Just like game patches are supposed to do.
2. Blaming the publisher or protection makers is also not the way to go, the only way these bizarre (and yes some are badly made) protections are around is because of the projected loss of sales due to piracy, piracy is here will be always here and probably wont stop. Its the greed of individuals that causes these more bizzare protections to appear on the market.
3. Wether people like it or not, Alcohol 120% or daemon tools is an essential warez app, if you have installed the protections will stop thinking you may or may not have a illegal image of a game, it doesnt know this 100% so to be safe it will detect the emulation and stop. What a protection should be doing, that is what it is made for.
4. As in JediKnights post as I quote "Piracy is way of life.... if you have the money to buy originals, do it. If not, get an illegal copy and use a crack." This is the usual response from a warez kiddy, when you download a game it is not Piracy! Piracy is illegal selling of a game, your just stealing downloading it, but it as just as bad. Now imagine a few million JediKnights thinking the same thing. How many would actually do what was originally said, do you think if they have money go out and buy a game? No offcourse not, they download it cause its free. Stealing plain and simple. And as said before, it doesnt matter if a game is badly designed etc, it is the same stealing.
But what most dont realise is, games like KOTOR2 etc were downloaded alot, so game quality doesnt promise good sales. Even if a game was $5 people would still steal it, that is how it is.
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