The difference between copying and cracks

[alva]

markos remains in the clear,

and stand on a good relationship with game compagnies for things such as interviews, chats and even having them as members posting.....

Allthough, maybe the nocd for PTW's european edition could have been an exception to the rule...

[H Tower]

slippery slope, slippery slope.

[Dinner]

Ouch! I think I just slipped and hit my head.

(on the slippery slope that is)

[Tuberski]

Originally posted by H Tower
that just means the mods didn't catch you. it doesn't mean it was right. with this rule, markos remains in the clear, and he can point to evidence that he tries to enforce it, ming's always closing this kind of thread.

I should rephrase that. I wan't told about I read about it in these forums, I don't actually have the crack itself.

ACK!

[Ming]

We delete any links the second we see them, or they are reported. We do what we can.

[Dinner]

I have a question which may seem dumb to you. In this age of CD burners why does anyone who wants to use warez even need a no cd crack. Couldn't they just download the program, burn it, and then play?

[alva]

Easy of use...

The cd doesn't need to be in the drive, which saves on

1. electricity
2. noise (especially if you have a very vast cd-rom)
3. wear on the cd and drive
4. time (game starts faster and you don't have to look/search for the cd)
5. ?

[ixnay]

It also helps when the CD protection prevents a game from starting correctly...

[Sarxis]

Yup- and I had that happen from Homeworld:Cataclysm; didn't like my DVD drive at all and would only run with a cracked .exe.

Pretty messed up- the whole industry really.

[Skanky Burns]

Copy protection also uses system resources, apparently even after it has initially verified the cd and loaded the game. Some people have reported that their legal copy of a game would run slowly, and a simple application of a nocd patch would allow the game to run decently.

[Locutus]

Originally posted by MrWhereItsAt
(conventional would be through using scenario tools)

Scenario tools? Naive Civ3er...

Originally posted by H Tower
ming's always closing this kind of thread.

And all other mods too

Originally posted by Oerdin
I have a question which may seem dumb to you. In this age of CD burners why does anyone who wants to use warez even need a no cd crack. Couldn't they just download the program, burn it, and then play?

Most games have some form of copy-write protection these days. Not that these protection mechanisms are particularly hard to get around, but then again, most pirats aren't particularly bright

[Locutus]

Originally posted by Skanky Burns
Copy protection also uses system resources, apparently even after it has initially verified the cd and loaded the game. Some people have reported that their legal copy of a game would run slowly, and a simple application of a nocd patch would allow the game to run decently.

Although I suppose it would have to be looked at on a game-by-game basis, I think this is not so much an issue of CD protection software, but more an issue of where the game gets its data from: when offered with the choice to get files either from the CD or from the HDD, some games prefer to get their data from the CD, even though the HDD is faster. The noCD patch eliminates the option to get data from the CD, forcing the game to use the HDD data and thus speeding the game up. That's also why hacked games often miss intro movies and stuff, since such things are usually stored solely on CD...

[Hurricane]

Personally, I think the best thing about no-cd cracks are that you don't have to switch CD:s all the time. I mean, in a world where everybody is used to remote controls, 5 disc CD carousels or HDD MP3 players, somebody still expects us to do the mightily exhaustive task of switching PC CD:s all the time.

On the other hand, I'm too lazy to download the no-cd cracks for every new patch, so I still end up switching CD:s frequently.

[Dinner]

The best solution imaginable would be if the government would pss a law restricting copy right holders from blocking CD owners from accessing their own CDs.