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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lockridge" data-source="post: 3736626" data-attributes="member: 43850">My problem is that I do re-install my operating system at least once a year (its a good cleaning after all) and I like to install games on my laptop for those weekends at the in-laws.  To add to this I also keep all of my games and re-visit them after a few years.So two problems:  1. We have to take them at their word that the limit will be removed.  Maybe it won't be - there are no promises in the license agreement.  2. We cannot be sure that they will support the game after a few years.  Lets face it, if they go out of business, or the rights to the game get sold to a company that doesn't want the costs of maintaining the activation of an old game, then I'm in the situation where I have paid for the game, I have the disks, but I cannot play it.UNLESS I obtain a crack that is.  And that is where these "protection" schemes fail.  I pay for my games, DVDs, CDs ect however I now know far more about defeating copy protection than any lay person should simply because of the copy protection itself!  I don't want to know about cracking DVDs but its the only way I can get a VHS copy of a movie so that my kids can watch it in the play room while my wife and I watch something else.  I don't want to know about copying games but I also don't care to search for a game disk or switch disks when I want to play a game.  I won't even talk about what kids will do to a disk.  I remember one time when a legitimate game would not install because I had a CD-writer installed.The sad part will be when people tell me that I should just buy another DVD player for the kids room or that I should just put up with searching for disks.  You see, this is how culture is moving toward a shut up and take it attitude.I know it sounds like a big conspiracy theory but the fact is that we are inching toward having our privacy invaded and our purchases controlled without our permission.  And we are eating it up.  I know that I'd really like to play this game (no X-box I'm afraid) so even I am very close to paying for the game and therefore encouraging future copy protection like this.</blockquote>

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