No CD hack?

Erm, allowing usually overrides disallowing, especially when the allowance is more specific than the disallowance.

I’m sorry, Bas, but I think Gibbon’s already explained it all and it’s been discussed to death. MS doesn’t give a damn about us modifying the game so long as we don’t profit from it.

It also isn’t illegal to bypass the CD check because an official version has been released WITHOUT such check.

So please, please, please, stop spreading incorrect information, especially on such an inconsequential subject.

as far as i know the german law, it is prohibited to crack software as long as neither a crack is granted by the publisher nor the publishing instance has clearly declared that you can crack (which is modifying in most cases) the software. moreover you can have up to 5 copies of the games, also no-cd version as “safety copies” even shared with friends, who, everyone of them, can also copy the game and give it to 5 of their friends. but FF is right here, we may modify and crack the engine, we may use Ubisoft’s no-cd version so actually all of the prohibitions, that might have been done, are not done and this way - irrelevant.

The german law actually ALLOWS the circumvention of copy protection on computer software.

Heheh…

One of you then is lying! Like a cheap rug!

ROFL

should be me, as likely w0dk4 went further in that than me yet. sry.

http://fehse.fhf-online.de/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Kopierschutz.pdf

“Allerdings darf gemäß §69a UrhG bei Computerprogrammen der Kopierschutz legal umgangen werden.”

§ 95a:(1) Wirksame technische Maßnahmen zum Schutz eines nach diesem Gesetz geschützten Werkes oder eines anderen nach diesem Gesetz geschützten Schutzgegenstandes dürfen ohne Zustimmung des Rechtsinhabers nicht umgangen werden (…)

§ 69a: (5) Die Vorschriften der §§ 95a bis 95d finden auf Computerprogramme keine Anwendung.

Oh, that was totally new for me. Sorry for spreading incorrect information, but I thought it would be a different to either use an official no cd exe or a cracked one. (Why? Because the original exe had a cd check and if this got disabled by a hacker an existing copy protection would have been bypassed)

But I was wrong anyways as it seems…

wow, great. thanks for that info, had so many tries to sort that out. thumbs up, m8

Hm, da mich das ganze interessiert hat, habe ich mal weiter nachgefragt:
http://forum.worldofplayers.de/forum/showthread.php?p=12615094&#post12615094

hm, ob wohl vom letzten post abgesehen werden kann, wenn der herausgeber sämtliche veränderungen erlaubt…