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Re:You can no longer reinstall CS 2 or 3 even if you have th... by zamalek on Thursday October 22, 2020 @11:07PM (#24865684)
I remember The Internet Archive celebrating the fact that the "do not tamper" clause was no longer legal for abandonware (as they host tons of abandonware that has been cracked, e.g. Win 95).

But I could be wrong.

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Re:You can no longer reinstall CS 2 or 3 even if you have th... by jonathan-neil on Thursday October 22, 2020 @11:42PM (#24865855)
Would be great if you tried to look up that information and cite your claim.
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Re:You can no longer reinstall CS 2 or 3 even if you have th... by zamalek on Friday October 23, 2020 @02:38AM (#24866609)
You're absolutely correct to call me out on that (I was on my phone), thankfully a fellow HNer found the specific legislation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24865881
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Re:You can no longer reinstall CS 2 or 3 even if you have th... by srtjstjsj on Thursday October 22, 2020 @11:49PM (#24865878)
You're wrong. Cracking your own software is always legal, and making illegal copies is always not, regardless of cracks.
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Re:You can no longer reinstall CS 2 or 3 even if you have th... by ByteJockey on Friday October 23, 2020 @12:25AM (#24866024)
That's not how the DMCA works. Circumventing these measure is completely illegal. It's just that doing it on your own software is very unlikely to have anyone find out.

But it's a problem for researchers, who generally want to publish their findings (or at least was the last time I was really paying attention to the law in the early to mid 00s).

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