In a bold display of creativity, Nelson Marques wrote:
I own all those games, and personally, under the legislation in my
country, I can do whatever I want with a product that I bought. From the
moment I bought it, it's mine to do whatever I decide with it, and the
EULA has not much weight in court of law.
Well, you can do what you like with the physical media, in case you want
to crack it or burn it or use it as a piece of body art, but you're
buying a license to use the software, not the software itself. If that
were really the case, then there's no reason why you couldn't start
burning off copies and selling them yourself. It's their software,
their code, their intellectual property. You've simply received
official permission (license) to use the software in the manner they
describe in the EULA. Why this is so hard for people to understand, I
don't know, but maybe it's easier for me because I work at a software
company and see the kind of damage your line of thinking can cause.
Granted, we don't do silly things that only serve to piss people off,
like requiring the original installation media to be in the drive any
time they wish to use our software, but still...
--
Eric (the Deacon remix)
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