Guest Posted August 24, 2003 Posted August 24, 2003 ----- Feel free to delete this if you think it's inapropriate ----- The NO CD patches are legal, and I was wondering if you guys could put something in the next install that allowed for a NO CD key patchto be installed. Beacues i wanted to play this on my LAN but couldn't cause I only have 1 CD. Thanks!
Hunter08721 Posted August 24, 2003 Posted August 24, 2003 I only have 1 computer to and wanted to play on lan
Evil Posted August 24, 2003 Posted August 24, 2003 .... you can use a no cd crack there is many that will work I only have 1 computer to and wanted to play on lan thats a joke right? i found it kinda funny
Mercenary Posted August 24, 2003 Posted August 24, 2003 I don't think this is going to be an option. I am quite sure they do not want to assume the legal responsibilities for those that are not entitled to such "mechanisms". Please find or make your own, and assume your own responsiblity for it.
NiNjai Posted August 24, 2003 Posted August 24, 2003 Uh.. CRC protection is encoded into MTA? I doubt that. Only the game itself has CRC protection.. and it's easily bypassed.. check out GCW..
Mercenary Posted August 24, 2003 Posted August 24, 2003 Uh.. CRC protection is encoded into MTA? I doubt that. Only the game itself has CRC protection.. and it's easily bypassed.. check out GCW.. Huh? Do you have any idea what you even said?
NiNjai Posted August 24, 2003 Posted August 24, 2003 I'm very aware of what I just said. Would you like me to explain?
Mercenary Posted August 24, 2003 Posted August 24, 2003 I think I can go on living happily without being baffled by your ignorance.
NiNjai Posted August 24, 2003 Posted August 24, 2003 Right. Well, I'm glad you can decide that I'm ignorant from one post. But what I said was indeed accurate. MTA does not have any CD-checks built into it. Nor, would I imagine any will ever be built in. The only cd checks are in the original game .exe. Which, are easily bypassed. They are, CRC checks (cyclonic redundancy checks) They would not have to make an "option" like you posted above for such "mechanisms" since there is no need to.
MTA Team Blokker_1999 Posted August 24, 2003 MTA Team Posted August 24, 2003 First of all : MTA has no CRC checks at this moment Second: if we had, hacking the client to remove it would be illegal third : a no cd crack is illegal: * due to the fact you may not hack the exe file. * you may not use 1 copy of the game on 2 machines on the same time. So playing on a LAN with only 1 copy is illegal
Mercenary Posted August 24, 2003 Posted August 24, 2003 The original poster was wanting an install that automatically overwrote the original executable with a "no-cd version. And last time I checked, no CD verification utility EVER used CRC. Correct me if I am wrong, but the protection used on Vice City is called "SecuRom". No one is asking for MTA to do SecuRom checks. They were looking for a way to get around them, since they claim it to be "legal". My advice was for them to find their own, and claim their own responsibility, instead of MTA potentially providing a way for those that do not have legitimate copies to otherwise circumvent this. And thank YOU.
NiNjai Posted August 24, 2003 Posted August 24, 2003 Oh, my terminology may be slightly inaccurate. However, safedisc 2 does use CRC checks.. and you should research a bit more before assuming you know anything. No-CD cracks are legal if you actually own a "backup" At least.. in the country I live in. But as Blokker stated, running 2 seperate copies of 1 licensed material(s) is illegal.
Mercenary Posted August 24, 2003 Posted August 24, 2003 (edited) Eh? http://www.cd-pressage.com/downloads/safedisc.pdf http://www.winehq.com/hypermail/wine-de ... fedisc.txt http://club.cdfreaks.com/showthread.php ... adid=45260 There is mention of using a checksum, but that is merely one step in the process. Edited August 24, 2003 by Guest
NiNjai Posted August 24, 2003 Posted August 24, 2003 Yeah.. there's no real technical data on that pdf document. That's merely a marketing spread. I really do not care to argue over something I already know is correct. If you do not realize that CRC is part of the process and essentially a key factor.. well, that's you. Cya
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