Pirated the software I already legally owned. Then listen to it read back the code to unlock your computer. the online activation only worked three times and then you had to manually phone call in your activation system key - not the product key but an even longer string the computer gave you, to a robot, speaking very clearly and slowly. And this was back before people left their computer on 24/7 (I mean, Windows had to restart like every day anyways just to stay stable, although Windows XP actually pushed this out to running weeks at a time, but you wouldn't know that just coming from Windows '98).Ĭherry on top? Yeaaaaah.
At every system start (I believe it was only after a cold boot) Windows needed to be re-activated. Until you do something crazy that no normal user would do. But it's only for a few seconds, so nbd.įire up the connection, voilà! You're activated. okay? I have dial-up using my parents' only phone line, which was shared with the church. But then I get this notification balloon: "Windows must be activated". I pop the install disc in, get all set up, and all is well with the world. I scraped and pinched together enough money for Windows XP Home edition (the computer had been donated by a friend of my Dad who worked at a college). Why? Windows '98 only supports a single CPU. When I had the dual-CPUs in, I was only using one. I mention the BIOS mod because that's the only reason I can think of for the following: or was it over 127GB? can't remember, regardless, I could throw whatever size hard disk I wanted in there after the patch) hard disks, better RAM timings, and a few other fixes. I later used a socket adapter to swap out with a 1.4 GHz Celery (single, unfortunately, as Intel had kindly snipped the dual-socket support line on their Celery line of processors to avoid undercutting overpriced PIII sales).Īnyways, I had a BIOS mod on there to enable support for large (over 60GB. Kinda parallels another societal issue (which I won't be discussing).įree example: I had a dual-socket slot 1 motherboard (Gigabyte GA-6BXD if you're curious).
Legitimate, law-abiding users, while the pirates laugh. Who does DRM affect mostly, then? Ah, that's right. If you are familiar with piracy, pirates eat DRM for breakfast. it might have a place for initial launch for AAA titles, but even then it's stupid. This or drive people away from epic games to steam, which is kind of counter productive to the aim of the give away.ĭRM is absolutely the stupidest thing. They bork the DRM, mess it up for a bunch of legit copy holders both paid and unpaid, which presents getting a pirate copy of the game to finish it as as possibly the only alternative. They release a game for free, giving would be pirates a chance to get a legit copy. It's ironic if the thing with the DRM is true.
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