The funniest thing is, that most cds are being ripped months before offical release... probably from a source that does not have such protection. And I bet all those albums on protected list are already ripped and availbile on internet.
As far as i'm concerned... such protection just lowers overall quality of CD.
If developer wants to install unlicensed software he will do so... even with enforced SOE, since developer is considered to be skilled enough to overcome such "protection". If your developer is not skilled enough to overcome this, he can be hardly called developer.
Sadly those games will only be propaganda on how U.S. are the best and how lame are others.
It happened to Counter-strike with M4A1 vs AK-47. AK47 used to be much more powerful but inaccurare and M4A1 quite accurate but not so powerful. Now they "fixed" (i say screwed) this so M4A1 is superaccurate and more powerful.. and made AK47 less powerful.
The only reason they did this is american propaganda... it does not make gameplay any better... it makes it worse.
There is no limit to the number of times you can install. Just as long as you're not installing it on different computers every time.
Actually.. only winXP home version has this expiration. however winXP professional doesn't have such "protection".
WinXP will be most pirated version of windows yet... mostly because of it's price (I would give $20 at most for such OS.. and MS would still have 200% profit) and because final (build 2600) professional version was on warez ftpz almost 2 months before offical release.
winXP has bunch of bugs... some of them are almost critical (HPT366 controller driver support at boot for example).. that's why MS is almost done with Service Pack1.
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The funniest thing is, that most cds are being ripped months before offical release... probably from a source that does not have such protection. And I bet all those albums on protected list are already ripped and availbile on internet.
As far as i'm concerned... such protection just lowers overall quality of CD.
If developer wants to install unlicensed software he will do so... even with enforced SOE, since developer is considered to be skilled enough to overcome such "protection". If your developer is not skilled enough to overcome this, he can be hardly called developer.
Sadly those games will only be propaganda on how U.S. are the best and how lame are others.
It happened to Counter-strike with M4A1 vs AK-47. AK47 used to be much more powerful but inaccurare and M4A1 quite accurate but not so powerful. Now they "fixed" (i say screwed) this so M4A1 is superaccurate and more powerful.. and made AK47 less powerful.
The only reason they did this is american propaganda... it does not make gameplay any better... it makes it worse.
There is no limit to the number of times you can install. Just as long as you're not installing it on different computers every time.
Actually.. only winXP home version has this expiration. however winXP professional doesn't have such "protection". WinXP will be most pirated version of windows yet... mostly because of it's price (I would give $20 at most for such OS.. and MS would still have 200% profit) and because final (build 2600) professional version was on warez ftpz almost 2 months before offical release. winXP has bunch of bugs... some of them are almost critical (HPT366 controller driver support at boot for example).. that's why MS is almost done with Service Pack1.