He's right you know, just look back at DVDs with all those "Piracy is theft" crap granted I'd just press stop and then hit play to skip it, but if anything it encourages piracy. I wouldn't be surprised if since the Introduction of DRM PC Piracy has gone up, sure CD keys alone don't stop piracy (though as we can see neither can anything else) but at least it doesn't put people off from buying your product like all the other useless DRM.
Hi - first time complainer about ubisoft - thier DRM is a joke, one minute I can happily play away on assassins creed 2 and splinter cell conviction both bought legitimatley with legitimate activation codes and now suddenley I can't play on them - we the legal buying customer have bought very expensive useless discs!
Though I'm not a fan of piracy, DRM has been too intrusive.
Sony has plans to put serial keys in PS3 games. That may be fine if they enter a four or five digit button sequence and that it can be sold as used in the future and not tied down to a system. But when it's intrusive, people will either say, screw this company, or pirate the material.
But what's clear is, you own the game you bought and have the rights to play, mod, do anything you want with the game.
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