I bought BioShock

[Letum]

Originally Posted by caspofungin

i don't condone piracy, but there are several cracks available to bypass the whole activation procedure. also, the designers mentioned releasing a patch at some point in the future to get rid of the copy-protection -- it seems thay only wanted it during the first period of retails when the game is "hot" and demand for copies -- legal and otherwise -- is highest.

Circumventing copy protection to use a game with out the CD is not piracy as long as you own a legal copy.
Depending on the user agreement, altering files to achieve this may be less than legal.
Using files that are not derived from the product to achieve this is a grey area at best.

[bradclark1]

The first thing I do when I get a game or even before is to see if there are nocd patches out.

[SUBMAN1]

Originally Posted by bradclark1

The first thing I do when I get a game or even before is to see if there are nocd patches out.

There isn't an official one to be found on gamecopyworld - just a work around using Daemon Tools 4. I had to go beyond this to get it to function without the DVD.

-S