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Do gamers care do you know? It is trivial to get versions of any software; cannot imagine people actually adhere to these laws in this case? Buy the censored ve

• mschuster91 9y ago
  > Buy the censored version; get a torrent of the real thing? The problem with torrents or warez in general is: do you trust them? Or: do you trust someone hasn't taken a virus-free package and embedded a Bitcoin/Monero miner or other malware in there? Especially as many warez groups distribute keygens or cracks compressed and crypted so that other groups cannot easily reverse engineer the secrets, it's hard to check what's in the package - and many cracks actually trigger virus scanners due to the compression, so people turn off the AV and then get f..d...
• johannes1234321 9y ago
  You don't reach everybody. I also got the original Wolfenstein back in the days, long before Internet. However the reason for the regulation is relevant: This Nazi stuff shouldn't be fun or anything. Playing with it makes it simple to forget that those symbols represent evil mass murder. Also going back to the times where the initial versions of those laws were made: Back then Nazi symbolism was everywhere in the county and the Allies didn't want to allow any Nazi-heroism. Balancing this against "legit" use is tough, especially in context of historic games. The self-censorship mentioned in the article above is the result of a publisher trying to avoid hitting a law but still selling as much as they can, without really thinking about what they were doing.