The keys are to prevent people from stealing and as you say you got your games fair and square.
I disagree. If the maker of the games had wanted to provide the key to the game, they would have. But they didn’t, which may have been part of their contract with the computer maker.
Well I had it, but I lost it and now I need to reinstall it.
Use the one you found. The restrictive DRM placed on software is reprehensible, the technically legal means of working within its confines are abhorrent, and especially in a situation like yours, you own it fair and square. Whatever you have to do to use your property in a reasonable manner is fine in my mind.
Definitely… I would say that you’re in the clear. I really don’t like restrictive DRM, although I do see why developers use it. That being said, I wish that more developers used a system like Steam where you log in to play your game–no key needed.
If you’re talking about downloads I can’t do that, I have a 300 mb a day limit on this bandwith, its stupid.Of course we’ll soon be into “the cloud” never installing programs on our computers at all so we won’t have to worry about install disks, keys & cracks.
Does anyone else remember floppy disks, when a big program like MS Word or WordPerfect might come on a dozen or more disks?
My first computer had two floppy disks and no hard drive.-I paid somene to put a 20MB hard drive in it and thought i had all the space I would ever need.Of course we’ll soon be into “the cloud” never installing programs on our computers at all so we won’t have to worry about install disks, keys & cracks.
Does anyone else remember floppy disks, when a big program like MS Word or WordPerfect might come on a dozen or more disks?
20MB is laughably small. I have 4.47 GB of music in my I-pod. What year was this?
1983
Wow, computers have improved in leaps and bounds since then. my computers pretty high end, I can’t imagine having computers that sound so terrible. I’m 15 so I don’t have memory of that era. I remember back when I was like 4 or 5 or something we had a windows 2000 I think, I might have been a 90 something, I’m not sure.
The floppies I am talking about were big-5 1/4 inches. Origianlly you put the program disk in the left drive and the data disk in the right. Up until the late 80s my tax programs came on 9 or 10 of the big floppies them we moved to the small floppies then cds, now I download them.,
It’s amazing how primitive they seem. Honestly, I think most of the computers at my school are primitive. There fairly old, the computer labs got Xps with Vista, but most classrooms have old windows 95s or 2000s. Mines practically a supercomputer compared to those. My computer is a quadcore, 64 bit computer with 6GB of RAM, it’s built for playing games. It was a Birthday present, I got it because my old computer couldnt handle the latest and greatest games because graphics are getting better and better. But I’ve seen a real supercomputer in a print something, I’m not sure. $3000, unbelievable stats. It’s amazing how far we’ve come in 30 years. even faster than airplanes, and they just keep getting better and better.
I am always reluctant to upgrade any of my Microsoft products until they have been outseveral years. I am still running windows 2000 server for my offices but will soon switch to 2003 . No way I would install server 2008.
You sure? Because this is one of the best computers I’ve ever seen or used.
I ws talking about software
Oh.