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lazydog: Exactly what are you asking for?

Admonishment for piracy or the consequences of piracy?

Only you will know if your actions are piracy and I suspect you know the answer yourself already.
I answered the "Why?" on a previous comment.

And yeah, I do. I now understand that DRM-free does not mean you can share it with other people you know; it only means you can download it as much as you want on any of your PCs. That "DRM-free" does not stand for "A PC game with the sharing freedom of a console game (in a CD format)", which was the idea I had of this.

In other words, I now have a better understanding to what the P stands in PC.
Thank you all for the input GOGers! See you all on the Pirate B... ehr, on the forums.
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DarkAkriloth: Ok, let's say my brothers go to work and they periodically need to take their PCs with them. Is it ok if they still play from their computer, even though they're technically away from our house?
I would take this to a tax/government qualification. If you qualify as a dependent in the household, you are part of the household, regardless if you are at work, on a business trip, hotel or other. So long as they aren't letting other people copy the game files/installer then it would be fine.

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justanoldgamer: Morally I believe that more than one player playing at a time is wrong (if only one license was bought and obviously not on the same machine).
Depends on if you're playing single or multi-player games. And of course the price of the game. If the game cost $30+ and you wanted to do a MP game of say NWN, then i wouldn't consider that wrong although the DRM/Atari/Bioware would say otherwise. If the game is on sale for $5 or less, then there's no reason (unless you're dirt poor) that they can't buy their own copy;

For the single-player experience, yeah probably only one instance should be running at a time... Not that there's a good chance of me running most of the games i have...
If you hate a judge and you want him to die, you might try a lawsuit against a person who shared his games with his friends. He will have a heart attack immediately.

There shouldn't be a problem if you share it with your friends and not the whole www.
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DarkAkriloth: And yeah, I do. I now understand that DRM-free does not mean you can share it with other people you know; it only means you can download it as much as you want on any of your PCs.
Not quite. It means you can, not that you're allowed to.

Or in other words: DRM-free means there's no technology (hardware or software) in place that tries to stop you from sharing - whether or not you're actually allowed to share still depends on what the license says. That's the licence's purpose regardless of the usage or not of DRM - DRM is basically a technological mean to try and make sure you follow the license (it's more complicated than that in reality, but that's a simple way to see it*).

* The basic meaning of DRM is to act as a technological mean to force you to act in accordance with the licence. However, it often fails (which is why I use "try") and can be bypassed (cracked), and it also at times tries to force you to a stricter path than the license holds you to (imagine, for example, a DRM system that limits you to 3 activations so you cannot ever reinstall the game more than 3 times without cracking, even on the same machine - despite the license not at all mentioning such a restriction, and thus allowing an infinite number of reinstalls).
Post edited December 07, 2014 by Maighstir