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You are playing the game on your home pc. A legal copy of the game you legally bought and legally installed. Of course it's legal. Doesn't really matter where you control the pc from, does it?
Originally posted by Kris:
Technically its illegal, and thats very techinically.
How?
As far as i can see, all he is doing is playing it on his pc, using a remote monitor and keyboard.
Would it be illegal to have the box in one room, the pc and monitor in another? How about if the "rooms" were in next to each other houses?
The game is installed on one pc. It's being run on one pc. No changes to the exe have been made, no copy protection circumvented. Where's the illegality?
what you described is legal in the US. i cannot speak for other countries =/
i always buy all of my games, i think it's important to support the gaming industry. there are so many terrible companies that produce such rubbish. imagine if they got paid less. we need to buy games for our own sake.
however, all these people on these forums that preach about how its so terrible to pirate stuff.... i'd love to check their machines for some illegal mp3s... lol
Originally posted by r0x0r:
You are playing the game on your home pc. A legal copy of the game you legally bought and legally installed. Of course it's legal. Doesn't really matter where you control the pc from, does it?
A purist would argue that as you are only allowed to install on any one concurrent machine at a time that given the client machine performs at least some of the server processing that this would violate the licensing.
Originally posted by JonPaulWild:
I have a legal copy of Football Manager.
It's installed on my home computer. However, is it legal to login to my PC from another location such as work via a remote control software such as PC Anywhere, Logmein etc etc...
Dude I heard that if you use remote control software software in conjunction with Football Manager then all future World Cups get refereed by trained chimps, the weather never changes from a cold, windy, downpour and the FM exe jumps out of your hard drive and waves a patronising finger at you
Seriously, if anybody accuses you of piracy for using your own ingenuity then with respect...screw them
As far as i can see, all he is doing is playing it on his pc, using a remote monitor and keyboard.
Would it be illegal to have the box in one room, the pc and monitor in another? How about if the "rooms" were in next to each other houses?
The game is installed on one pc. It's being run on one pc. No changes to the exe have been made, no copy protection circumvented. Where's the illegality?
Wish I'd thought to phrase it like that, but exactly so, he could have his keyboard and monitor on 10 mile cables.
I don't see a problem, if you had a Laptop aswell as a desktop would you buy a 2nd copy to play when you are out & about or just put the one disk you have in the laptop?
I've been doing this for a couple of years, and as someone has already stated It's one copy being run on one machine. So i don't see how it would be illegal. The product is not being broadcast publicly and no change to the game has occured.
I'd like to see how this would be classed as illegal even very technically
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