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Fortunately, enterprising reverse engineers have already released a patch that allows the game to work.

snuxoll 7y ago
In the case of current DMCA exemptions, it’s even arguably legal to distribute. > Video games in the form of computer programs embodied in physical or downloaded formats that have been lawfully acquired as complete games, when the copyright owner or its authorized representative has ceased to provide access to an external computer server necessary to facilitate an authentication process to enable local gameplay,
- paulie_a 7y ago
  Who cares about the dmca? Just ignore it and live consequence free
  - baroffoos 7y ago
    It matters for the people that create and distribute the cracks. Its much easier to simply dump the crack file/source on your website and freely distribute it if its legal to do so.
  - vageli 7y ago
    > Who cares about the dmca? Just ignore it and live consequence free The people distributing the software are at greater risk than those downloading it.
    - paulie_a 7y ago
      The risk is basically nothing. You get a notification saying "don't do that again". In my younger days I helped distribution with various scene groups to the tune of terabytes of files. I think I got a few notices that ended in the garbage. At the time I was getting cracked copies from employees of ILM and pixar
      - PostOnce 7y ago
        A bunch of people have gone to prison, or been put on probation/house arrest and had to pay large fines. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Fastlink https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Fastlink https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Buccaneer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Buccaneer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Site_Down https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Site_Down
        paulie_a 7y ago
        The odds are lower than winning the lottery.
        astrodust 7y ago
        Yet people win the lottery every day. The EFF exists for a reason. Hopefully not a reason that you'll ever personally need, but if that day comes and the hammer comes down on you, you'll be thankful people prepared for that situation.
        paulie_a 7y ago
        1 in a 180 million. What is your point? The eff doesn't exist to defend pirates so that is irrelevant. Pirating in every shape in form has to be one of of the lowest crimes to get caught for. And most cracks come from overseas so good luck there.
        Thorrez 7y ago
        > The eff doesn't exist to defend pirates so that is irrelevant. That depends on your definition of piracy. The EFF strongly fights against the DMCA. > Pirating in every shape in form has to be one of of the lowest crimes to get caught for. Low in terms of what? Punishment? A fair number of people have received harsh punishments, as already mentioned. You mention you were caught distributing a lot of pirated material, so the probability of getting caught seems high. The fraction of people that received a non-trivial punishment of those caught distributing a lot of pirated material is higher than 1/180 million.
munk-a 7y ago
That doesn't let the original companies off the hook unless they release legal claims to the game and let people actually distribute that patch without fear of current or future legal repercussions - Disney in particular is never going to do that.
xtracto 7y ago
Doesn't prevent it for going into the DRM Graveyard ( https://www.reddit.com/r/drmgraveyard/ https://www.reddit.com/r/drmgraveyard/ ).

In the case of current DMCA exemptions, it’s even arguably legal to distribute. > Video games in the form of computer programs embodied in physical or downloaded formats that have been lawfully acquired as complete games, when the copyright owner or its authorized representative has ceased to provide access to an external computer server necessary to facilitate an authentication process to enable local gameplay,

paulie_a 7y ago
Who cares about the dmca? Just ignore it and live consequence free
- baroffoos 7y ago
  It matters for the people that create and distribute the cracks. Its much easier to simply dump the crack file/source on your website and freely distribute it if its legal to do so.
- vageli 7y ago
  > Who cares about the dmca? Just ignore it and live consequence free The people distributing the software are at greater risk than those downloading it.
  - paulie_a 7y ago
    The risk is basically nothing. You get a notification saying "don't do that again". In my younger days I helped distribution with various scene groups to the tune of terabytes of files. I think I got a few notices that ended in the garbage. At the time I was getting cracked copies from employees of ILM and pixar
    - PostOnce 7y ago
      A bunch of people have gone to prison, or been put on probation/house arrest and had to pay large fines. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Fastlink https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Fastlink https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Buccaneer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Buccaneer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Site_Down https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Site_Down
      - paulie_a 7y ago
        The odds are lower than winning the lottery.
        astrodust 7y ago
        Yet people win the lottery every day. The EFF exists for a reason. Hopefully not a reason that you'll ever personally need, but if that day comes and the hammer comes down on you, you'll be thankful people prepared for that situation.
        paulie_a 7y ago
        1 in a 180 million. What is your point? The eff doesn't exist to defend pirates so that is irrelevant. Pirating in every shape in form has to be one of of the lowest crimes to get caught for. And most cracks come from overseas so good luck there.
        Thorrez 7y ago
        > The eff doesn't exist to defend pirates so that is irrelevant. That depends on your definition of piracy. The EFF strongly fights against the DMCA. > Pirating in every shape in form has to be one of of the lowest crimes to get caught for. Low in terms of what? Punishment? A fair number of people have received harsh punishments, as already mentioned. You mention you were caught distributing a lot of pirated material, so the probability of getting caught seems high. The fraction of people that received a non-trivial punishment of those caught distributing a lot of pirated material is higher than 1/180 million.

munk-a 7y ago

That doesn't let the original companies off the hook unless they release legal claims to the game and let people actually distribute that patch without fear of current or future legal repercussions - Disney in particular is never going to do that.

xtracto 7y ago

Doesn't prevent it for going into the DRM Graveyard ( https://www.reddit.com/r/drmgraveyard/ https://www.reddit.com/r/drmgraveyard/ ).