06-18-2003, 08:08 AM
MEAT,Jun 18 2003, 07:33 AM Wrote: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.
Quote: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.
Well, it really isn't difficult to make an exact copy of the original CD so that the game still thinks it's the original CD :)
I think it's worse when they try to put a "copy-protection" on music CDs to stop people from ripping them, and the only thing they end up doing is making it impossible to play them in CD-ROMs and even in some cars. Out of the last 10 CDs I've bought I have been unable to play 3 of them on my PC. That kind of sucks because I don't own a CD player, I have hooked my PC directly to my speakers.
The only solution to that problem was to return the CDs and then download the music and burn it. I guess they kind of shot themselves in the foot with that one :(