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ssj12 on 19 March 2011
twesterm said:
Galaki said:

If it's not illegal, then why it is impossible for me to play from backup without going through modding my system? Which is not what I wanted to do.


They want the system as closed as possible because if they didn't, something like the Dreamcast would happen.  You could simply copy a disc and play it, backup or not, so that's what people did. 


The Dreamcast failed because SEGA showed they didnt care about their systems and didnt give userbases any decent amount of time between systems/system upgrade components. If SEGA put even one more year between hardware releases SEGA most likely would still be making consoles today.



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ssj12 on 19 March 2011
Gnizmo said:
Kasz216 said:


But you would totally be allowed to break that safe to get it.  Or assuming that safe belonged to someone else, get a court order to force them to open the safe.


Indeed. The concept here is not all contracts are created equal. EULAs as an example have a horrible track record. The few times they have been tested in court has not gone well as I recall. Contracts can, and routinely are completely invalidated because the law supercedes any dealings the citizens of a country have.


From my knwledge, EULAs never hold up in court, ever. In the EU this is extreme fact and is why you never hear about this crap over there.



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HappySqurriel on 21 March 2011
ssj12 said:
Gnizmo said:
Kasz216 said:


But you would totally be allowed to break that safe to get it.  Or assuming that safe belonged to someone else, get a court order to force them to open the safe.


Indeed. The concept here is not all contracts are created equal. EULAs as an example have a horrible track record. The few times they have been tested in court has not gone well as I recall. Contracts can, and routinely are completely invalidated because the law supercedes any dealings the citizens of a country have.


From my knwledge, EULAs never hold up in court, ever. In the EU this is extreme fact and is why you never hear about this crap over there.


ESLAs should never hold up in court (in particular when it comes to piracy) because you can’t assume implicit agreement to a contract (as it is done in the videogame industry), there is no way to prove who agreed to a check-box agreement when installing software, and there is no reason to believe that the people copying and distributing the software ever agreed to the ESLA.



Xenostar on 21 March 2011
kowenicki said:
Radziel said:

do You also make backup of your books?


what a ridiculous statement.


Yeah why would you backup books, Amazon just lets you download them on to as many devices as you like :P