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Re: Specially for you, Ross

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From: john... John Lewis
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2013 02:53
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On Tue, 09 Jul 2013 10:25:24 -0400, Xocyll <Xoc...@kingston.net>
wrote:

>"Andrew Rybenkov" <aryb...@gmail.com> looked up from reading the
>entrails of the porn spammer to utter  "The Augury is good, the signs
>say:
>
>>CDProjekt CEO is a former cracker and software pirate
>>
>>http://www.rpgcodex.net/forums/index.php?threads/cdprojekt-ceo-is-a-former-cracker-and-software-pirate.69815/
>
>You don't actually read these before you post them do you?
>
>So he was a "pirate" when copying software was NOT ILLEGAL in his
>country?
>
>And when did CD Projekt get formed?
>Oh the same year copying software became illegal in that country.
>
>So he "pirated" when it was legal, then formed his own software company
>when it became illegal.

And realizing how customer-unfriendly DRM was and breaking it on
behalf of the game-players, his company now only sells DRM-free games
INCLUDING THOSE DEVELOPED BY HIS OWN TEAM. 
As the saying goes "Puts his money where his mouth is" by releasing
them DRM-free on Gog.com. If you find the Witcher games released
elsewhere with DRM, please note that is a layer deliberately added by
those game-distributors... Steam, Gamersgate, etc... GOG does not
charge a price-premium for the DRM-free benefit. 

John Lewis

>A high schooler who did something that wasn't illegal where he was then
>went totally legit, yep he's a criminal for life.
>
>Since he's publicly admitted what he did back then, don't you think he'd
>have been arrested and charged if he'd actually committed a crime?
>
>Maybe next you can write about all the people who used cocaine in the
>USA when it was still legal and paint them as criminal druggies since
>it's not legal there now.
>
>You're not a criminal if what you did is/was legal where/when you did
>it.
>
>Xocyll
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