I think B uyers need more Rights

[Joe Forster/STA]

Mind you guys, I already found out (some of) the weaknesses of my "idea":

Would you have to register yourself with your personal details (name, street address etc.)? If so, you can go to the personal data protection ombudsman and tell him that some company wants to collect your personal data for "no apparent reason"!

Still, you can give fake personal data and then there's no one to trace the spread image back to. Or, if that special injector software arrives at you via post - so your personal data _must_ be correct - then you can give your neighbor's name or your work place address or some post box address that is not very related to your person. Furthermore, the latter solution, that includes postal delivery, is expensive. Although, if you ask me, being able to back up your disks for the shipping costs of a package and the CD in it, well, a nice bargain...

Game companies always stress that they're trying to suppress "casual warezers" with copy protections. This means, they don't want to let you make a copy of your game for your neighbors, friends, close relatives etc. if you did so, that wouldn't be publishing your personated backups - made by imaging the original, injecting your "serial" into the image, and then burning it back onto CD/DVD - and the game company would never find out that you did so. So, my idea "helps" casual warezers...

(Side note: As I pointed out in a previous thread, mass piracy - including manufacturing and selling extreme amounts of pirated games - doesn't give a f*ck about all this as they will always manage to break any kind of copy protection, sooner or later, the easy or the hard way...)

Joe