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Originally Posted by Dekrastius
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2) Also, how is everyone coming by their copy of Everquest Titanium? Theyre like 80 bucks no matter where you look... Is there a different place I should be looking? Because 80 bucks is ridiculous... Can't believe I threw out my Titanium copy a couple years ago after being off EQ due to the dramatic playerbase shift... I'd be 80 bucks richer had I not!!!
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IANAL, but I have been lead to believe that your purchase of EQ Titanium was the purchase of the right to use the copyrighted material, not just just the vacuum coated plastic that makes up a CDrom. Under that line of thinking, acquiring the data from "alternative sources" would be legal (as far as I can tell, legal under US law). Doing so is merely re-acquiring the bits (which, themselves are easily reproduced and unprotected), not re-acquiring the rights to the copyrighted content (because you already have the rights, from Sony, by purchasing the game correctly years ago).
This line of logic may not be quite so strong if you had purchased a different version and patched it up to EQTitanium, but your wording was that you had purchased that specific version.
I believe this pattern is no different than the pre-internet possibility of my friend and I each buying a game separately. After leaving the game for several years, we both decide it'd be nostalgic to pick the game up again. I open my jeweled case, to find the CD cracked because I had sat on it (true.. **sniff** my beloved SC:Broodwar CD). I then use his media to install the game on my computer, but use my CD-key and my account. I've held the rights to the copyrighted data the whole time (in fact, I am in possession of the (cracked) CD if anyone needed proof of purchase).
Now if your girlfriend wanted to play along, then you would "have to" pony up for at least 1 proper licensed copy of EQ Titanium for her, because you only bought 1 copy in the past, not 2.
And while I may put "have to" in quotes, its flat out the right thing to do. Sony developed the game, pay them for their work. The only way for us to get rid of these horrible crippling POS anti-piracy measures is to start respecting the copyright holders, and then push to have them return the respect. Anything else leads to bickering and trash like SOPA/PIPA
01-19-2012, 12:19 PM
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