dominions copy protection

[Pocus]

Originally posted by DominionsFAN:

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Originally posted by Pocus:
False. The updates which can be found are the major patches, which are delivered with a cd key, right, but are downloadable and archivable. The incremental patches, which are installed progressively as you download them, are surely not found on the internet.
Major patches are made by Gal Civ to allow Users to archives them and reuse them as they wish, with the big drawback that they are pirated.

You are very wrong again. All of the Galciv patches can be found on the net. Propably someone using the method what Ive mentioned above.

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I bought gal civ, have you? I know for sure that the major patches are distributed without much protections, but the incremental patches are only downloadable thru stardock utility, which downloads the components and then upgrade your game on the fly. I would be very surprised to see incremental patches on P2P servers or on warez sites, as it would asks for an hacked copy of the utility. Can be, but this would be a major hassle, as the utility is itself patched nearly all weeks (and work only with a secure connection toward stardock). What you see is certainly the big patches. If stardock only permitted DL thru his securized connection, I think this would slow down greatly the hacking of the game.

I maintain that the download of patches only available thru secure connections made between the user and a certified server, with a list of Banned keys, is a scheme which impede greatly pirates. Thats IMO anyway, you can disagree

And I think that most honest Users are not that bothered by a scheme like this, because they know that the time they loose when they DL a patch with their key is a very small loss, compared to all the hassle incured by pirates to get a given Version of the game (and as soon as a patch his DL with the same cdkey too many time, ban it, to the despair of all pirates).
(IMO again)

[ October 13, 2003, 17:02: Message edited by: Pocus ]