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Article #719774Re: A GOG DRM-free release is announced on Steam :-) :-)
From: David Lamb
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2013 21:23
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2013 21:23
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On 26/03/2013 1:38 AM, Peter Huebner wrote: > In article <kir0gb$95d$1...@dont-email.me>, dal...@cs.queensu.ca says... >> >> It has been many moons since I used a CD-key game so I have forgotten >> most details. If I recall correctly you'd install the game, but it >> wouldn't work until you typed in the CD key; the installed game only >> enabled itself for use if it decided the long string of characters was a >> valid key. What was it that prevented someone from using the same key on >> different machines? Online registration? CD key had to match something >> in the data burned into the CD itself and CD had to be in the drive? >> something else? If you required online registration of a CD key, then >> surely that was authentication. If not -- what was it that prevented >> somebody from using the same key on different machines? > > > I used one yesterday. Installed SE5 on my laptop, typed in the long- > winded cd key and that was it. NO online validatin' (how, the company's > gone), no The CD Must Be In The Drive nuissance... > > Not all of them are like that of course. > > I also installed Fallout 1 at the same time. No shagging around with CD > keys or anything else there. Interplay was always good like that. One > reason I often bought games off them. > > -P. > OK, so to be clear, does that mean you could have installed the software on a different computer using the same CD key? So you just have to have the CD in your posession long enough to install the program and type in the key?
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