Re: SEIV Gold Rebate
Unless there was a licence agreement you signed when you purchased the game that said something about restricting your ability to back up the thing, don't worry about any "click through" licences that might have come with the game itself. They are in all probability not legally enforceable, the only reason most people think they are is because nobody has actually taken a case to court. The only relevant laws in this case are copyright laws, and they explicitly allow you to make as many backup copies as you want in whatever form you want (see: "fair use"). The only limitations are on _distributing_ those copies.
In fact, it might be that it would be illegal to make a copy of the game and then send the _whole_ CD in to Shrapnel, but that it's legal to make a copy and then send in a fragment of the CD. Seems to me that sending in the whole thing would count as distributing illegal copies (since you're keeping one for use), but by rendering the original unreadable before sending it out you aren't actually distributing the game. IANAL, of course, this is just my own interpretation of what I think the laws say.
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