I guess they would content that you should know it by now, or that you can read it on their site. But they can do any anything, unless you can contest it in court.
Games boxes always have with small letters words to the effect that "Use of this product is subject to a license agreement", and suggest you can perhaps read it in a manual (if you can borrow one) or on their website. They are not interested in how you read it, that burden is on you. That the shop won't allow you to open and look is a problem between you and the shop not the people who produce the software.
Don't kid yourself. Australia is a signatory of copyright conventions as well.
Yes, you need to convince the judge if it comes to court - which of course it might not. But no matter how much you put fingers in year ears and go NANANANANANANA - it is not your game, and you have a very limited range of things you can do without being a criminal.
I haven't seen it. Two old men living alone trying to groom a younger man who wears tight body fitting latex while he chases after another man who wears makeup - sounds way to gay for me!
No, they provide an illegal service. The offer to you is "Buy this game license with copy protection or don't play" - if you do pay for a game license and then hack the game you are in violation of the license.
No matter what you do you can't prevent it. There are millions of people who get their jollies from that, and they will always find a way around it. Only if you have armed guards in all rooms watching all people would you have a chance of preventing it - and that assume none of the guards were bribeable - or pedophiles...
This just brings totally draconian censorship and totalitarianism down on the rest us.
Now capital punishment might work, eventually you'd have removed those gene lines from the pool.
"Artists should continue to receive compensation for their creations for as long as people are enjoying them "
Hell no, that's why people say Copyright is theft - they don't deserve to keep getting paid over and over - nobody else does. You want money? Then work for it - give a concert then its fair you get money, not for something you did ages ago.
"Works for me. YMMV, Caveat Emptor, Do Not Eat, etc"
Sure, but if it just does what it says that would be great - but if it steals your farm and you find out later - that wouldn't be so great. I suppose you could always run it in a virtual machine *g*
"Given that WAR is considered the next likely candidate to challenge the supremacy of Warcraft "
Considered by whom? Over emotional children? I don't for a second believe they will stand even the remotest change of doing more than a tiny scratch in the surface of the combat tank that is world of warcraft.
That seems like a really sneaky site. Almost no information. Who are they? Why are they doing this? The dubious way of labeling it "free to download" (of course it is) usually means "but to use it you'll have to pay a fortune".
Is it the RIAA snooping on all your credit card details and passwords?
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I guess they would content that you should know it by now, or that you can read it on their site. But they can do any anything, unless you can contest it in court.
Ignorance of the law is no excuse.
Besides, on the back of my box it says "You must accept the enclosed license agreement" - don't say you weren't warned.
"The legality of the issue is totally peripheral "
Actually no, that was the topic of discussion.
You don't have to convince me that most normal people would get a nocd crack for their games, but don't kid yourself - it is not legal - alas.
Games boxes always have with small letters words to the effect that "Use of this product is subject to a license agreement", and suggest you can perhaps read it in a manual (if you can borrow one) or on their website. They are not interested in how you read it, that burden is on you. That the shop won't allow you to open and look is a problem between you and the shop not the people who produce the software.
Don't kid yourself. Australia is a signatory of copyright conventions as well.
So you answered your own question - no they won't. That sucks. Call the politicians and get them to change the system.
"I don't need to convince anyone. "
Yes, you need to convince the judge if it comes to court - which of course it might not. But no matter how much you put fingers in year ears and go NANANANANANANA - it is not your game, and you have a very limited range of things you can do without being a criminal.
I haven't seen it. Two old men living alone trying to groom a younger man who wears tight body fitting latex while he chases after another man who wears makeup - sounds way to gay for me!
I'm watching Mamma Mia instead - it was gurls! ;)
No, they provide an illegal service. The offer to you is "Buy this game license with copy protection or don't play" - if you do pay for a game license and then hack the game you are in violation of the license.
"In Australia a contract for sale is complete when both the contractor and the contractee agree to the same terms."
What they were selling you was a license to use the software. Regardless of what you convince yourself.
"Two wrongs don't make a right, dude."
Two wrights made an airplane!
Is to give them "free speech" - because in the end nobody cares.
No matter what you do you can't prevent it. There are millions of people who get their jollies from that, and they will always find a way around it. Only if you have armed guards in all rooms watching all people would you have a chance of preventing it - and that assume none of the guards were bribeable - or pedophiles...
This just brings totally draconian censorship and totalitarianism down on the rest us.
Now capital punishment might work, eventually you'd have removed those gene lines from the pool.
There is no program to be run. However if there is data in a media streams, and this data evaluates to a url - the program will launch that url.
I'm renaming all i see!
To user mplayer to play your files.
"Artists should continue to receive compensation for their creations for as long as people are enjoying them "
Hell no, that's why people say Copyright is theft - they don't deserve to keep getting paid over and over - nobody else does. You want money? Then work for it - give a concert then its fair you get money, not for something you did ages ago.
Yeah, but google isn't a university.
"Works for me. YMMV, Caveat Emptor, Do Not Eat, etc"
Sure, but if it just does what it says that would be great - but if it steals your farm and you find out later - that wouldn't be so great. I suppose you could always run it in a virtual machine *g*
Can Vista "check the line voltage" ?
"Why would you want it enabled, anyway?"
To access the thousands of sites which check it to make sure nobody isn't "stealing" their bandwith.
Because its not the same people.
"Given that WAR is considered the next likely candidate to challenge the supremacy of Warcraft "
Considered by whom? Over emotional children? I don't for a second believe they will stand even the remotest change of doing more than a tiny scratch in the surface of the combat tank that is world of warcraft.
"It seems to me Warhammer is effectively castrating themselves.
TO which I say: "Good, I hate those bastards.""
To which Blizzard says: When it's ready.
That seems like a really sneaky site. Almost no information. Who are they? Why are they doing this? The dubious way of labeling it "free to download" (of course it is) usually means "but to use it you'll have to pay a fortune".
Is it the RIAA snooping on all your credit card details and passwords?
Much more information is clearly needed there.
Isn't all of this the fault of the end user - not the third party company?