Sad state of the gaming industry...

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But itis not really a copy protection. It is an access protection. You can copy the CD with no problem at all regardless of if there is emulators or not on your computer. It is accessing the game that it protects and hence it should not fall under copy protection.

One can possibly argue that it does bot, that is that some copy protection is tied to the access control, but that is in my opinion a way to just sneaking in protection for things you are not really meant to have protection on. This was actually noted in the new proposal for Swedish copyright law (due to EU directive). That it was ONLY copy-protection and its circumvention that is protected. Not for example access control. In addition, if some protection did more than prevent copying, it would NOT get the protection from circumvention since that would give the copyright holder far to much power. So  basically they said that it is up to the copyright holder to either make just a copy-protection and get protection from circumvention, or tie it with other things such as access control and lose the protection. I think that is sound reasoning. To be really nitpicking, it is about circumventing any protection that deals with a right the copyright holder has, so not strictly just copying but access and use is not an exclusive right to the copyright holder so is not protected.
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Yes I see that from a legal standpoint, but standing here from my perspective I see it as a nuisance I should not have to burden. The software company I gave a portion of my monies to allows me the use of their software, however no where does it say their software will permanently "disable" one of my peripheral drives with a spinning CD while their program is in use! I hardly feel any sort of circumvention or copy-protection should be allowed to take over MY drives without MY permission. There should be some sort of warning label on the discs that states, "WARNING: so long as you use this software, the drive containing this disc will be unusable for the duration of time you use said software." No thank-you! Whenever I get a chance, I get ISO's and mount images or cracks if absolutely necessary. I really can't stand the "CD must be in the drive to play" rules, and I question the legality of it in regards to taking over your peripheral drive.