by amok » Sat Sep 22, 2012 4:13 pm
DRM has nothing to do with lawyers, it has everything to do about company policy.
There are several examples out there who manages and thrives just because of anti-DRM stance. Staying in games industry, look for example at Humble Bundle, GOG, Desura, heck even one of the pillars of DRM, UBIsoft, have toned down their DRM a lot the last two years, but even those games you could have installed on more then one PC at a time. Steam games you can install on as many computers you want...
There are also a lot of indie developers, such as LoFi games, Instant Kingdoms and so on, which manage to do one-time activation without using lawyers to implement it.... nor actually the expenses of doing so. Celeris is using an extremely outdated and cumbersome DRM procedure which most other game companies have left behind long time ago. If I where a pirate I could install their software on as many computers I wanted to, as a paying customer I can not. So the only people their form of DRM hurts is actually the paying customer, that can't be right? And I will not support this practice, though I would like the game.
Edit - licenses for entertainment software are usually sold per person or household, not computers. If you read the EULA you will usually find this phrase like this " Ubisoft grants the User a non-exclusive and non-transferable Licence to use the Multimedia Product, but remains the owner of all the rights relating thereto", this is taken from Settlers 7.
Let me also ask - just why should Celeris "need to keep me from installing it twice in the first place"?
Edit 2- I just dug out my old email from LoFi games when I bought Kenshi, and I quote: "Keep your key code, it has unlimited activations forever, even after the game is finished. I won't have no evil DRM system on my ship! No sir!" - hmmm wonder how many lawyers he needed to put this in his email.