06-18-2003, 07:42 AM
Why doesnât anyone ever read the FAQ on this site? I'm pretty sure if you did, you'd understand there is a zero tolerance rule on cheating, and since Blizzard considers ALL 3rd party programs to be cheats, you are cheating! Sure, all it does is allow you to play from your hard-drive and stop the Win-Key from interfering with the game, but for some reason Blizzard considers it a cheat and I'm sure this site would also (although then again, D2 Accelerator would also be considered a cheat now, wouldn't it).
But that brings me to an interesting point I was pondering just the other day... If you can legally have a back-up copy of media for personal use, such as movies and music, wouldn't this extend to video games? And if this were so, wouldn't it be illegal to require the use of the CD in the CD-Drive to play the game, since any copies would then be rendered useless without the original CD in the drive, thus making copies for personal use useless? I'm not sure of the law in the area, but it seems like it could be argued in court in favor of the user, IMO.
But that brings me to an interesting point I was pondering just the other day... If you can legally have a back-up copy of media for personal use, such as movies and music, wouldn't this extend to video games? And if this were so, wouldn't it be illegal to require the use of the CD in the CD-Drive to play the game, since any copies would then be rendered useless without the original CD in the drive, thus making copies for personal use useless? I'm not sure of the law in the area, but it seems like it could be argued in court in favor of the user, IMO.
"The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained liberation from the self." -Albert Einsetin