Author: Mike Byrne
Date: 16:27:02 09/05/02
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On September 05, 2002 at 18:41:52, José Carlos wrote: >On September 05, 2002 at 16:31:19, Rick Terry wrote: > >>I am not interested in selling it, only using as a backup copy, since these CD's >>are easily damaged. John Merlino please explain this extremely paranoid >>behavior of Ubisoft. >> >> >> Rick Terry- a paid customer > > From what other posters have said, it seems I'm in disagreement with general >opinion here. > Well, I think that if you buy a tv and it falls in the floor and crashes, or >if you buy a car and have an accident, or if your house burns, in neither case >you get a free replacement from the seller. We live with that, so I think we can >live with the fact that if a CD gets broken we lose it and need to buy a new >one. > So my humble opinion is: no backup copies. They are usually (I don't mean your >case, of course) an excuse for piracy. > > José C. The difference of course is that you are not buying the cd, you are buying the intellectual property - it's an intangible, it's a right to use- thus replacing the cd is really just a courtesy and of insigificant consequence to the seller (unlike replacing a tv or automobile) - if I was the seller, I would follow common practice - but I don't what the common practice is - I never had a cd go bad on me. I would not even consider making a copy of a the cd, because by the time it failed, Cm10K would be out. Just like CM8K is one step closer to cd heaven - as soon as Cm9K arrives ... I think cd copy protection -- unfortuately -- is a good business decision. It hurts the honest guy, but it is a must. I think the WinXP registration scheme is much more intrusive and I suspect it will be along time before I move over to XP. I suspect if you enclose the orignal cd in an envelope, and write MR. Ubisoft a nice letter explaining how your dog chewed your cm9k cd, you would get a replacement on the first pass.
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