There is no difference that I can determine. I also got my software from softwarefirst. Everything (including the crack) works fine for my computer. They shipped it out really fast for an overseas transaction. I got it in about a week and a half.
A previous post mentioned that it was legal in GB. I didn't mean that there were laws against exporting the software. What I meant is that usually software distribution companies have contracts that limit the distribution of software to different regions. For example, the DVD regions are an additional method of controlling that. That's why companies like the european Amazon.com will only ship to specific contries...because 99% of the software they are selling have contractual restrictions.
On one other note, I saw on a post of a different thread (I think it was on this site) that using the crack is OK if you own the game. If you are in the US, this is not true. The Digital Millenium Copyright Act prohibits anyone from circumventing any form of copy protection. Since the SafeCD stuff on Alien Crossfire is copy protection, it is technically illegal in the US. (Not that it will stop me from cracking it). The music and software companies are lobbying the US congress now to enact legislation that would make it a crime to create a "digital system" without putting some sort of copy protection on it.
A previous post mentioned that it was legal in GB. I didn't mean that there were laws against exporting the software. What I meant is that usually software distribution companies have contracts that limit the distribution of software to different regions. For example, the DVD regions are an additional method of controlling that. That's why companies like the european Amazon.com will only ship to specific contries...because 99% of the software they are selling have contractual restrictions.
On one other note, I saw on a post of a different thread (I think it was on this site) that using the crack is OK if you own the game. If you are in the US, this is not true. The Digital Millenium Copyright Act prohibits anyone from circumventing any form of copy protection. Since the SafeCD stuff on Alien Crossfire is copy protection, it is technically illegal in the US. (Not that it will stop me from cracking it). The music and software companies are lobbying the US congress now to enact legislation that would make it a crime to create a "digital system" without putting some sort of copy protection on it.
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