Have you tried contacting Runic? I've read that they fix these things pretty quickly.
Have you tried contacting Runic? I've read that they fix these things pretty quickly.
So, I have a question then. Does this mean that all my steam library titles are subject to being bound to a specific motherboard, much like an OEM version of windows?
So, I have a question then. Does this mean that all my steam library titles are subject to being bound to a specific motherboard, much like an OEM version of windows?
Speak for yourself, BrightCandle. I'm a huge pyro.Our parents can teach us fire burns and we don't stick our hands in the fire, we trust that they were right and it saves our skin. Even as adults we don't play with it...
- I (like many others) now sit patiently waiting for a now silent (dumbfounded?) support followup to the continuing issue
To SunnyD, if I was in your shoes, I'd crack it and let Runic know that I did because their DRM system is broken.
I wouldn't admit to a company that I was doing something illegal even if most people felt I was in the right. I'm guessing most cracks probably violate the dmca.
Cracking software is not illegal if you own it.
That's like saying breaking your own windows to your house or care are illegal because you lost your keys.
Cracking software is not illegal if you own it.
That's like saying breaking your own windows to your house or care are illegal because you lost your keys.
Definitely not legal, even if you feel it should be. You simply don't have the right to modify the software in any way. You don't own it, you are granted a licence to it with particular restrictions in its use.
Stream has DRM too, and its evil also. Try having a dispute with steam and watch as they lock your entire account and take all your games. Its sickening people think steam is OK, its not OK at all.
A license is a good, and you're entitled to use the product. I'd like to see someone taken to court for "cracking" software they own because of broken DRM.
I would never advise anyone to commit a breach of their licence, they could successfully be prosecuted and I do not want to ever be associated with that incase it ever went badly wrong. In some countries the law is better than others, but software is not defined as a good in most western countries, it is thus not covered by Goods related acts.
In my opinion games should be covered by the Sales of Goods act and such, because we have no recompense for broken products. Changing games to a good would also solve a lot of the issues we have with DRM, it would be ours, and we could sell it and trade it and borrow it and do all the other things 10 years we could do because we didn't have DRM. This is one area where I think the law just hasn't caught up to the reality of what is fair, reasonable and the common expectation.
I would never advise anyone to commit a breach of their licence, they could successfully be prosecuted and I do not want to ever be associated with that incase it ever went badly wrong. In some countries the law is better than others, but software is not defined as a good in most western countries, it is thus not covered by Goods related acts.
In my opinion games should be covered by the Sales of Goods act and such, because we have no recompense for broken products. Changing games to a good would also solve a lot of the issues we have with DRM, it would be ours, and we could sell it and trade it and borrow it and do all the other things 10 years we could do because we didn't have DRM. This is one area where I think the law just hasn't caught up to the reality of what is fair, reasonable and the common expectation.