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Originally Posted by Shaggy
I've run into the exact same situation. When I contacted tech support for the company, they're the ones that actually told me to download a crack.  |
This brings up another point that hiasn't been explicitly stated in this thread so far:
Products with DRM are inferior to the pirated equivalent! They are crippled.
I have a PC game that I play regularly. I have a legal copy of the game that I bought from a shop. I use a 'crack' to enable playing the game without the disc because it's more convenient. When I have a computer with several hundred gigabytes of storage why should I be forced to insert a CD to run a game? And pirates use this as a reason (excuse) to download pirated games. They don't have to worry about the game not working or deactivating because the pirates have fixed it. This doesn't make pirating right, but to many people it justifies it.
I used to subscribe to my favourite soccer team's online videos, but I couldn't easily transfer those videos to the PC connected to my TV, so I stopped paying.
DRM artificially limits technology.
The people buying the media are not the ones pirating it either...