Hi everyone, I am a MS user. I am a gamer also. I find it odd that when I purchase the licence to a game under fair use I am entitled to make a back up copy. However most companies use safeDisc2 for copy protection. Clone cd makes a good back up however it is unable to copy the weak sectors well enough that allows you to play the game without the cd in the tray. So I call them up and I am told that if my cd becomes unreadable that for 10 bucks they will send me a copy providing that they still make copy's of the game. So what alternatives do I have to make a functional backup (legal)? I must use a no cd crack as I am unable to make a working back up. Under the DMCA this makes me a terrorist ! Does anyone know if fair use is dead or has this issue just not bumped heads in the court system ? Do there numbers of piracey include me as I have downloaded this crack ? Something has to happen soon as I wonder when the day will come that I might be considered a pirate and a terrorist.
Check out http://www.inqst.com/articles/p4bandwidth/p4bandwi dthmain.htm . Seems the p4 has a regulater that throttles the cpu when it gets to hot, 2 ms on 2 ms off. So it is a 1.5 gig chip idle and a 750 mhz playing quake ? Interesting stuff and a good read. The p4 has a slew of problems it seems.
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Hi everyone, I am a MS user. I am a gamer also. I find it odd that when I purchase the licence to a game under fair use I am entitled to make a back up copy. However most companies use safeDisc2 for copy protection. Clone cd makes a good back up however it is unable to copy the weak sectors well enough that allows you to play the game without the cd in the tray. So I call them up and I am told that if my cd becomes unreadable that for 10 bucks they will send me a copy providing that they still make copy's of the game. So what alternatives do I have to make a functional backup (legal)? I must use a no cd crack as I am unable to make a working back up. Under the DMCA this makes me a terrorist ! Does anyone know if fair use is dead or has this issue just not bumped heads in the court system ? Do there numbers of piracey include me as I have downloaded this crack ? Something has to happen soon as I wonder when the day will come that I might be considered a pirate and a terrorist.
Check out http://www.inqst.com/articles/p4bandwidth/p4bandwi dthmain.htm . Seems the p4 has a regulater that throttles the cpu when it gets to hot, 2 ms on 2 ms off. So it is a 1.5 gig chip idle and a 750 mhz playing quake ? Interesting stuff and a good read. The p4 has a slew of problems it seems.