Stupid anti-piracy measure #54326

[JessicaM]

@muttbunch

Actually, I can’t see how this could be legal, EULA or no EULA. It’s like a car manufacturer rendering your car inoperable if a welder and sheet metal are ever found in your garage. I have a feeling Ubisoft will ultimately be forced to abandon this particular line of attack against their customers.

Unfortunately, the DCMA made such schemes legal. It is also a federal criminal offense to crack such schemes.

[SpoofyChop]

Answer:

Vote with your wallet and call your representatives and express outrage at the DMCA.

[Mike_Hussey]

@JessicaM

[quote=muttbunch]Actually, I can’t see how this could be legal, EULA or no EULA. It’s like a car manufacturer rendering your car inoperable if a welder and sheet metal are ever found in your garage. I have a feeling Ubisoft will ultimately be forced to abandon this particular line of attack against their customers.

Unfortunately, the DCMA made such schemes legal. It is also a federal criminal offense to crack such schemes.[/quote]

True, but Ubisoft publishes games in more countries than the US and those countries also have courts.

[Squirrel_Killer]

@Qenan

I can live without Ubisoft titles. I don’t even bother with clone programs, but enough is enough.

I’ve been living without Ubisoft titles since the Pool of Radiance 2 fiasco.

[SpoofyChop]

What’s an ubisoft?

:twisted:

Just kidding, I liked Splinter Cell. It was no Thief though.

[Desslock]

@Squirrel_Killer

[quote=Qenan]I can live without Ubisoft titles. I don’t even bother with clone programs, but enough is enough.

I’ve been living without Ubisoft titles since the Pool of Radiance 2 fiasco.[/quote]

I think that’s the Ubisoft title I ever played, and they inheritied it.

[Nathan_Phoenix]

great, since I have daemon tools & nero on my system, I have to warez any Ubi games instead of buying them if I want to play them. Who the hell comes up with stuff this stupid?

[AndrewMyers]

@Lokust

great, since I have daemon tools & nero on my system, I have to warez any Ubi games instead of buying them if I want to play them. Who the hell comes up with stuff this stupid?

… I also have Nero on my machine – it came with my Samsung DVD/CDRW drive.

I must have some sort of magic PC, I guess, 'cause I’m not having any problems with 1.5.

[jeffjones]

a.b.games.dogs

The 1.50 patch/crack are up. Well gee, that took what… a day and a half?

[XPav]

Didn’t Eidos give Commandos a “if you have a CD-R drive in your system, it won’t work” security feature?

[Mike_Hussey]

I don’t know about ‘Commandos’, but they screwed up the copy protection on ‘Championship Manager 3’ so badly that even stores with ‘No Returns’ policies were accepting returns, at EIDOS’ behest.