Well this is a pain in the ass ... I lost three really important gaming cds (StarCraft vanilla, WarCraft III/WCIII:TFT) for "various reasons" (mostly this bitch lost them). Does anyone "offhandedly know" whether I can (LEGALLY!!) download any ISOs I find for them from the internet and make new copies? I'm assuming "yes" seeing as I did actually buy them, but you can never really tell with the whole RIAA/MPAA/DRM/etc ...
By the way, if we do uncover that it is illegal to do this, would anyone else be interested in signing a petition to have it legalized?
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by al_tyranny on Fri Jun 30, 2006 5:13 am
mm_freak wrote:Slackware users are dreamers. Sorry to say.
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by al_tyranny on Fri Jun 30, 2006 6:52 pm
daemon404 wrote:I don't that that would be legal. However, if you still have your own legal serial number, I don't see the harm in it.
Yeah, I probably still have the boxes "somewhere" (and probably in a very squished-up state). On the other hand, I do have my cd-keys written down, so it all sounds good :D
mm_freak wrote:Slackware users are dreamers. Sorry to say.
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by darthmandeep on Mon Jul 03, 2006 3:34 am
I had to get a torrent'd copy of the Icewind Dale 2 CD2 after the disc I paid for got a crack running through it. It sucks that this is considered illegal. It really is a moral gray-area, but no petition is going to make a difference.
I wouldn't worry about anybody going after you for a one-time download though.
I wouldn't worry about anybody going after you for a one-time download though.
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by Raziel on Mon Jul 03, 2006 3:51 pm
Well just get them form torrents, that's where I got my Warcraft 3 (no, not back xD) It shouldn't be illegal if you already own the license, cause the CD key is the license of the game, and while you have it, you are allowed to have the game from one source on another... I think...
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by Sephy on Mon Jul 03, 2006 5:40 pm
It's still considered illegal, but if you download the ISOs off a torrent, burn them and use your own CD keys, I don't think you'd have any problems. You might have to use a crack or not, depending on the copy-protection mechanism, It sucks, but that's the way it is. :/
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by arn0ld on Tue Jul 04, 2006 2:30 pm
hmmm, Warcraft and Starcraft.. I think there (not sure if iso's) are some you can search in bearshare. Though, I don't think it's legal using P2P. Anyways, if you're that desperate to play the games, bearshare can be one good option. (just my own opinion) 
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