if it's not abandonware........ - by kctay
cosmicnut on 11/9/2007 at 10:35
There are sites like underdogs that have been given cease and desist orders by some game manufacturers. Thats becuase they found out who was running the site. There have been sites around for years distrbuting hacks and crack. They haven't been shutdown becuase they are probably using hacked servers and other tools to hide their identities.
Just because its on the internet doesn't make it legal!
yes, even the "fix" exe's are still hacking / disassembling the code, which is against the EULA. No Cd "fixes" are breaking
Quote:
WIPO Copyright and Performances and Phonograms Treaties Implementation Act
(1) "circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work" except as allowed after rulemaking procedures administered by the Register of Copyrights every three years.
(2) "manufacture, import, offer to the public, provide, or otherwise traffic in" a device, service or component which is primarily intended to circumvent "a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work", and which either has limited commercially significant other uses or is marketed for the anti-circumvention purpose.
Which means hacking the exe to remove the reliance on a CD is ilegal. Distributing it is illegal. If the exe allows you to hack your own ss2.exe then you actually commiting an illegal act.
Of course thats if your american. Elsewhere, other laws apply
Nameless Voice on 11/9/2007 at 12:02
Time to sue Relic for releasing an illegal patch circumventing the copy protection in their own game, then!
Keeper Beege on 11/9/2007 at 12:40
Quote Posted by Uranium - 235
Eh, 'game laws' exist in copyright form. Pirating a game isn't theft in any way, shape or form, as it falls cleanly under copyright infringement, a civil matter.
The issues come up when you consider EULAs, and the amount of people that are ignorant and/or completely hypocritical about them is astounding.
For example, most EULAs say you can't sell your copy of the game. Yet people are on THIS BOARD linking to Ebay. However, a cracked .exe is potentially an EULA violation, but if I were to post one here, people would flip. A cracked .exe isn't illegal at all, and isn't against any copyright law either. It's an EULA issue, and a gray area at that. They're actually probably more 'allowed' then selling your game on Ebay is, and yet no publisher has ever attempted to punish EITHER.
Why do you think gamecopyworld is still around? EULAs are meaningless.
And this is exactly why it gives me embolism! :laff: :laff: :laff:
Matthew on 11/9/2007 at 12:42
Quote Posted by Nameless Voice
Time to sue Relic for releasing an
illegal patch circumventing the copy protection in their own game, then!
Copyright owner = can do what they like, but I suspect you were being wilfully obtuse for comedic effect.
Kolya on 11/9/2007 at 14:07
Quote Posted by Matthew
[...] but I suspect you were being wilfully obtuse for comedic effect.
You mean not everybody in this thread is?
TaskL on 11/9/2007 at 18:49
Well to me it certainly is abandonware now. I was a little to late in buying SS2 from that australian game warehouse and now it is discontinued from their site.
Now no place, that I know of, sells SS2 so I can not by myself a brand new copy. I have never played this game before and I would like to, but that's kind of hard when nobody in fact sells it. So what choice does a person like me have now? Hmm, all I can think of is simply downloading it, but that's "illegal."
D'Arcy on 11/9/2007 at 19:08
Yes, it is. So if you do it, please don't come back here to tell us about it.
Harvester on 11/9/2007 at 21:31
Quote Posted by TaskL
So what choice does a person like me have now? Hmm, all I can think of is simply downloading it, but that's "illegal."
Try eBay. Worked for me.
