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Originally Posted by Fjordmonkey
Sadly, my friend, it doesn't void the EULA. And if you want to be a pirate, go right ahead. Just don't come crying here if you ever get reamed by the company 
The devs don't have to give us diddly squat, and they have the law on their hand. The faster people acknowledge that little fact, the faster you can get on to doing something more worthwhile with your time.
Downloading games is something I stopped doing a long time ago. Why? Simple. while pirating saves you some money, it helps to move more and more developers over to console gaming, where pirating is harder. Or move them to proprietary DRM-solutions like UPlay. |
Usually I'm very much EULA is EULA and copyright is not to be abused... but in the case of where the product sold does not match the product advertised, this is and should be a completely different story.
If it was a motor vehicle advert and the motor vehicle being sold didn't match, civil action could be applied and have a gues which party would win that action... yes the person bringing the action against the vehicle maker.
Blatant false advertising.....
The same should apply to software and civil action should be (in this case) brought against the publisher. Why the publisher? because they own the rights to the product, they advertised the product to sell the product, and they released a product which fell short of that commitment to supply.