Where are all the cracks?

[RincewindTheWiz]

Originally posted by viperspit01
Ok Thanks for that, but they have No-CD patches, No-CD patches don't violate any copyright laws in any country in the world as they are a stand alone patch and dont contain any of the games code. They are no different to mods, patches, trainers etc.

They certainly violate the DMCA in the USA, and they will also violate the new laws coming down in all european countries because of a european directive. I'm not saying people will be actually sued for breaking a copy protection, but in the USA this is theoretically possible NOW. The DMCA forbids any bypassing of a copy protection device, and this includes patches. It will be interesting to see whether they can actually enforce this, but don't have to much illusions about patches...