[game_preservation] Problematic installation DRM; thoughts?

[Jim Leonard]

Andrew Armstrong wrote:

> * Installation requires an internet connection to validate the CD key 

> (bad enough in itself)


This is the future, unfortunately.  It's the only way to significantly 
hurt pirates, because there's no way to write a keygen because the 
verification code is on the server and not in the program.  So this 
problem (for archivists) will never go away...
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