Not a crime? Depends on how you look at it...
In some countries, there's such a thing as "fair use" (USA&UK, for example). Something generally considered as fair use is making a back-up copy of a disc for personal use. Most copy-protection prohibits you from doing so, thereby violating your
rights. Yes, your rights, the very same stuff your forefathers fought so hard for to aquire.
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Originally Posted by Loud_Silence
Anyone remembers those good times, when you only needed the disc to play the audio tracks?
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Yes, the original Tomb Raider. Even worked with the Playstation version. But I think that has more to do with compression, or the lack of a need for it. CDs were still new tech and offered vastly more space then a stack of floppys, so there was no need to compress the data too much.
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Originally Posted by SteamWake
Got to agree DRM is a bad idea.
AFter all I 'bought' the game I dident rent it.
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Another pickle.
Actually, when you buy a game, all you actually
own is a polycarbonate disc with an aluminium layer and some chemicals. The contents remain property of the copyright holder, all you get is the right to use it. Apart from owning the disc, renting or buying is the same thing when it comes to software.
Apart from that, as a user nowadays, you have no rights anymore. They can do whatever the heck they want to you, including forcing "spyware-like" copy-protection on you.
*just to clarify;
This thread is in no way an attack on Ubisoft in general or the Silent Hunter dev teams in particular. I think Ubisoft has a
very amiable disposition on this matter. They used StarForce in the past, but dropped it after a poll showed most people didn't agree with it. Even the SecuROM protection was patched out of SH4.