Comments on: What If Windows 98 Had Activation? http://www.scatmania.org/2004/08/22/activation-bad/ Scatman Dan's stuff Thu, 09 Sep 2010 07:18:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0-beta2-14729 By: Scatman Dan http://www.scatmania.org/2004/08/22/activation-bad/#comment-103 Scatman Dan Tue, 24 Aug 2004 07:16:52 +0000 http://www.scatmania.org/?p=467#comment-103 Aye - I crack all my activation-based games, and re-route the traffic from all of those that repeatedly do online checks on their validity (even when I've bought them legitimately): why should I have to lose gametime and bandwidth just because I have a legal version and not a cracked one. Aye – I crack all my activation-based games, and re-route the traffic from all of those that repeatedly do online checks on their validity (even when I’ve bought them legitimately): why should I have to lose gametime and bandwidth just because I have a legal version and not a cracked one.

]]> By: Denyer http://www.scatmania.org/2004/08/22/activation-bad/#comment-102 Denyer Tue, 24 Aug 2004 01:59:21 +0000 http://www.scatmania.org/?p=467#comment-102 What's tended to happen with other manufacturers is that end-of-line products receive something along the lines of an authorised keygen. Or, since reverse-engineering is permitted (even by the DMCA) for purposes of interoperability, breaking the authorisation mechanism goes unchallenged. Naturally, they're still bastards for implementing it in the first place. I'm going to be looking at other operating systems when 2000 no longer does what I want -- and that's due to Microsoft's decision to inconvenience legitimate customers whilst the genuinely malicious walk straight through their security. A similar situation is occurring now with various games -- the copied version is much more straightforward for users to get working than the copy they bought. Sheer fucking stupidity... What’s tended to happen with other manufacturers is that end-of-line products receive something along the lines of an authorised keygen. Or, since reverse-engineering is permitted (even by the DMCA) for purposes of interoperability, breaking the authorisation mechanism goes unchallenged.

Naturally, they’re still bastards for implementing it in the first place. I’m going to be looking at other operating systems when 2000 no longer does what I want — and that’s due to Microsoft’s decision to inconvenience legitimate customers whilst the genuinely malicious walk straight through their security.

A similar situation is occurring now with various games — the copied version is much more straightforward for users to get working than the copy they bought.

Sheer fucking stupidity…

]]> By: Jon http://www.scatmania.org/2004/08/22/activation-bad/#comment-101 Jon Mon, 23 Aug 2004 16:53:59 +0000 http://www.scatmania.org/?p=467#comment-101 Microsoft in "total bastards" shocker? Microsoft in “total bastards” shocker?

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