12-12-2004, 09:30 AM
MEAT,Dec 12 2004, 10:13 AM Wrote: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.
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I think we actually agree. I was just commenting on the "circumvention of copyprotection illegal in Germany" and said that we do NOT have such a case.
In my opinion, what we have is a faulty program. A program should happily coexist with other programs on my computer and not interfer with basic Windows functions and so on. Demanding that you should not be able to run other programs at the same time is just stupid and unjustified (although I can see their motivation) since you are supposed to have many programs installed and also running. If they don't like it, don't make programs for Windows.
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