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Bluebird said:
Well - looks like I figured this out the hard way.
BTW, there is absolutely no connection between a legal license and DRM stuff. The DRM stuff, even the fact that there is a license key, is not even mentioned in the license. It also does not say anywhere that when I have two licenses, that I have to use two different license keys on installation.
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The license key is not mentioned in the software. However, there is absolutely no requirement to do so. The license states that only one copy may be installed per license and since the installations are not media dependent (i.e. don't need a CD in the drive to play), there MUST be some mechanism of preventing large scale pirating off of one single CD. Hence unique license keys per each license. That concept is rather damned obvious. Much like Microsoft has individual license keys and corporate volume license keys, except Dom3 does not have any VLKs.
The DRM stuff is not referred to in the license, if for no other reason than that it was added later in a patch to make the life of people using pirated copies harder.
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Bluebird said:
They are separate topics. DRM restrictions will have no effect in court, except perhaps when they violate "fair use".
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You're going to have a pretty damned hard time showing how the Dom3 DRM restrictions hamper fair use rights since the license agreement stipulates only one install per game.
Doing a second install on a machine you own and using that for SP only and playing any MP games from a different machine would technically be a license violation anyway, so fair use does not really enter into it.
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Bluebird said:
So, concerning your point about Illwinter does not need to care: I am having problems with a part of the software that is not properly documented and leads to faulty behaviour. So, asking for documentation and suggesting UI improvements by asking for proper error messages is not absurd.
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A request for documentation is not unreasonable. But see my first paragraphs in this post. Also, I don't know where you come from and how used you are to the extremely litigious culture of the US (and the attendant excruciating license agreements), but most of us from the Nordic countries have little patience for spelling everything out for people to the level of "Placing your hand in the fire will cause burn injuries".
That said, whether or not the documentation and license agreements will be updated is up to Shrapnel and Illwinter. I have nothing to do with that as such.
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Bluebird said:
I can understand and accept that Illwinter introduces DRM stuff (though I do not like it, because it restricts what I can do with the software). But then making it behave somewhat nicer would be great.
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That can probably be said of nearly any software you care to name.
