Many companies such as EA (Electronic Arts) embrace piracy as free publicity while adding value added services/content for original copies of their games. They however still keep the standard cd-protection softwares on their products to avoid them being copied or cracked, though many of which are cracked anyway.

Hehe, no one said it works. Thats why i started this topic. Securom and such make money from all this anyway. Criminals make money for them really. Like anti-virus softwares.. what would happen if there were no viruses? They'd make their own to fuel their benefit.

If you dont have the money, then dont buy ler. Why have to stoop to being a petty thief. If you dont earn alot, then whose fault is that, the game company?

someone mentioned about games rental in page 1. That won't work in Malaysia as people here are ignorant and inconsiderate barbarians who double park for their own convenience and never clean up their own fastfood trays.

Anyway...what about second hand games? I mean..like some said, they only want to play the single player portion of the game. Buy they can play it for a month and then sell it back. Someone else can buy at cheaper price and used software does not degrade in quality. Except of course the DVD/CD in which case the people will not buy back if you don't take care of the media.

Those who plan to to sell back out will take care of the DVD/CD. Since you only need to install it once or something. Sure, there are CD checks like securerom but I would personally install cracks after installing with my original. Cause less CD reading means my hardware last longer and nothing wrong using crack to play the game since I already paid full price for it.

Plus reselling games are totally legal too. Everyone benefits.