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I wont even bother quoting most of the gibberish you tried to talk about in the vain attempt of looking intelligent.
1. Whatever software you buy there is always a what if scenario. Like say an example like SE4, its great fun and very moddable, but then it dies of death because nobody is making mods for it. So life expectancy is not for ever. That is one what if for non-protected games.
For protected games yes media can get scratched or damaged, just like DVD's, Dinner Plates, Washing Machines, etc etc see where this is going. What people including yourself DO NOT seem to realise is you only have the right to install said software and to use it.
I have never needed to really back up any game in a sense. My older games like Pirates! and Birth of the Federation are over 15 yr old. I can still get the original media and still install them, the discs have little minute scratches from use but they are still usable.
2. Shamus knows what he has digested by reading various sources and tried to put 2 and 2 together to make 5. Sure he seems to you like he is very knowledgeable, but he is spouting out the same excuses that I have seen over the last 12 years on the net. And his fans/followers who reply to him are mostly his loyal hand clapping seals eating up the same excuses to excuse their thefts.
3. You just semi-quoted one of the biggest warez excuse in the world. "If I didnt buy it, then im not hurting sales if I was not going to in the first place, so the company didnt lose money". Yeah and here is my usual answer, how about I come around to your house and hmmm steal your car and maybe while im there take your PC and TV and oh the microwave. I wasnt planning on buying them so its ok? Of course not its theft, your legally owned items I took, just like warez users are stealling legally owned and copyrighted software.
And its because of this seal clapping montage of people who lap up these excuses like candy that more serious protections have to be used, and every year and broadband becoming more readily available and cheaply that more and more warez kiddies surface and think its their right to have everything for free.
4. He didnt have what now? Of course he didnt have that info he was a volunteer mod, but that still doesnt mean he could not have spouted out crap like he did. He lied. I know it must be a hard concept for you to comprehend, but yeah people lie.
5. Inconvience to some yes, but who is to blame, thats right the seal clapping army. And before you go on about it, here is other examples of other ownership items that need more protection over the years. Cars, Houses, Household items, Money, Credit Cards, etc etc all these items have what in common? Thats right thiefs, petty common criminals who steal from others and force others to take more action.
For example the car alarm system, sure it protects the car, but what about the pesky cats that set it off at 4am in the morning while you sleep, making you wake up stumble about look for the keys to turn it off while at the same time pissing off your neighbours. Sound familiar to something else?
6. Yes hard disk problems, etc etc, but these are good reasons for a publisher to allow you to regain reactivations. Not give them to people who have seemed to be able to play the game mostly at the same time from different parts of the planet, and different hardware configurations in a short time.
Again nothing wrong with the system, just the people who abuse it.
7. Yes I buy my games, do you? Im starting to doubt that when the olde excuses start rolling in and you used one of those said excuses. Propaganda la la la PROPAGANDA!
8. There was one great game, which yes I legally purchased, Psychonauts. Fantastic game, didnt sell well, but yet thousands and thousands of people were saying how great the game was but yet, if it did not sell well how did these people enjoy it. And ultimately some even complained about how boring the game was on the developers forums. So it begs the question. If sales were so bad why did many people have it? Thats right the seal clapping brigade strikes again!
And back OT, gamejackal is pish IMHO :P
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