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Article #716753Re: A GOG DRM-free release is announced on Steam :-) :-)
From: john... John Lewis
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2013 03:55
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2013 03:55
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On Tue, 26 Mar 2013 17:23:33 -0400, David Lamb <dal...@cs.queensu.ca> wrote: >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? > fyi: FO1 and FO2 are both available for purchase from GOG.com totally DRM/CD-key free. John Lewis
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