What does it mean if a no-cd or fixed exe works w/orig disc?

[RincewindTheWiz]

I'd suggest you contact the publisher and make a big stink out of it. After all, if it wasn't for the people who makes these cracks, you would have been completely out of luck. You bought the game, and if its dumb copy protection prevents it from playing on your particular cdrom/dvdrom drive, you better tell them about it.