With the 'GrandPrix' series of games, there is the ability to 'patch' or add different 'skins' for cars of later seasons and other tracks, etc, not included in the original release....much like the different skins not included with the WB release....but to use the patching software you need also to run a No-CD patch or the poor proggy gets confused, so for that reason I use the No-CD, and I rather have full-installs and not bother with CD-swapping anyway.
My nephew called me and mentioned he had a 'copy' for me of GrandPrix 4 [just days after its release.....I said fine, but I'll be buying it anyway [$80 AUS] as I 'know' I'll like it....[I'd already got some patches, the trailer, walls, and the No-CD in anticipation].
Only two problems with it....
1. AAAAAAARGH, my system needs to be upgraded....CPU and AGP port speeds are too damn slow....
2. I personally have pushed these cars....[even on my own, on occasion] and there's no way a single race official can push your wreck that has lost 3 wheels and its bum is dragging on the ground.
Now if only they can 'accurately' sim the dynamics of OUR input....that'd be nice....

why do companies even bother trying to add all these protection schemes and crap? they will never be able to stop cracks. in the program i made i didn't put too much effor in protection cause anyone who wants to crack it will either be able t themselves or get one from a site after it's been cracked by an experienced cracker. by the way i was able to crack desktop x 0.85 by myslef and i suck at it...

uh, i cracked it for educational purposes. i never put the crack on any website or anything, i just wanted to learn to debug so that i could do it to my own program when it needs it.

and no i don't think they stop a majority of theft, just look at any good cracks archive and they have at least one crack for every programd and version of that program imaginable. they've yet to make a program that can't be cracked and they never will.

I guess they don't have to buy if they get it for free. Like you said, they just use it until they don't need it anymore.

no i still wouldn't have bought psp cause as you all said there are free or dirt-cheap solutions too. maybe if i could afford it, which i can't cause psp is $200, and i NEEDED it i would buy it, but the reason i have downloaded copies is cause i don't NEED them, i just use them for a couple small websites i run as a hobby.

but your scenario of no warez or cracks is totally unbelievable anyways, it's like having guns with no murders.

by the way i use paint shop pro cause it's a hell of a lot better than photoshop in my opinion.

Vanilla, what are you talking about? PSP is only 100$, not 200. If you really want it and really need it, you can find 100$.
How did you get your computer? Did you steal it? You found the money for that, didn't you?

"compare the number of people who have gone to the trouble of finding and using a crack to the number of people who bought the programs. and i'm not talking about all us computer nerds around here, i'm talking -everybody-"

exactly. that's why it isn't hurting anything.


"Vanilla, what are you talking about? PSP is only 100$, not 200. If you really want it and really need it, you can find 100$. "

again, i don't NEED it, i just use it occasionally for fun. i could live without it.


"How did you get your computer? Did you steal it? You found the money for that, didn't you?"

actually i've had my computer for 2 years now and i have only paid off about $25.