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Originally Posted by Deside
Good post and fair play to you also. The whole point of forums is so people can disagree politely. :-D And to be honest I do buy a new PC every five years, but the PC I had last, HAL2002 (wow, six years then) who died earlier this year (RIP) I think had the original box and motherboard and everything else was new. Sort of like the old joke about a sword in a museum “oh yeah, it’s the original. The handle’s been replaced three times and the blade twice.”
I’m a typical “not afraid to hack her PC to bits to make a game work but can’t afford an all singing all dancing rig” – in that I buy a PC about every five years, and when I get a game that breaks the acceptable threshold I’ll throw some more memory in, then a new graphics card, then a bigger hard drive, etc. etlalalalail it dies or I have money to get a new one.
But I’m of the opinion that most of the people that will torrent Spore would have done it anyway, copy protection or not. And cracked copies tend to have a few amusements built in. Either a virus, or phishing, or malware of some sort, spyware, or even just the fact that the patches refuse to talk to it. I like my new computer too much to put something I’ve got hold of from some random bloke somewhere. If I’ve bought it and something goes wrong with it, the onus is on EA to sort it out. The law works both ways. I bought it, I have rights too. If you have problems with a cracked copy they’ll tell you “told you so” and that’s that.
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Not all of them do, the first releases by the "scene" groups tend to work fine it's the people in between, but if you're using a public torrent tracker you're asking for trouble with a great big bullseye on your head. There are hundreds of private trackers that require invitation only membership and such, thus saving you a lot of agg with fake torrents, viruses and such. They also usually have communities so you can get and give feedback on what you've downloaded.
As for it being on EAs head to solve your problems, it's not, if you read the EULA it generally says they provide the software as is and if it doesn't work TS they provide customer support and such but that's a joke not matter what your problem and what you tell them they will always tell you to uninstall, reinstall, scan for viruses and such even if you explicitly said you've done that. And ultimately they have the right to not support it at all, and to turn off the activation servers when they get bored without releasing a patch to allow legitimate customers to continue using the software. The only legal right you have is to return the software to the store, and pirates don't have that problem anyway.
If you think you're more protected by being a legitimate customer then you're gravely mistaken, the pirates have just as many rights as you do when it comes down to the bottom line. You don't have the right to get support if it doesn't work or breaks your computer, but neither do they. And at least the pirates aren't buying the software and getting treated like a criminal, I resent the fact that as a paying customer I'm treated as is everyone else like I'm out to steal from and screw over EA, I paid for my game so why the chuffing hell should I be treated the same as the people who pirate it, and it's that which is driving me more to the fine F*** YOU I will pirate it then if that's how you're going to treat me.