Author Topic: Registering a CD key to download it from EA? (Read 3358 times)

naturemon · March 25, 2011, 03:09:05 PM

Forget it.

Ad Bot · Advertisement

Scene · March 25, 2011, 03:27:00 PM

Quote from: naturemon on March 25, 2011, 03:09:05 PM

Just torrent the game, it's legal with a key.

Reported, do not suggest people pirating.

naturemon · March 25, 2011, 03:27:56 PM

Quote from: Scene on March 25, 2011, 03:27:00 PM

Reported, do not suggest people pirating.

It's not pirating, it's pirating if you don't buy the game >.>

Thus why torrents are LEGAL, if you purchase the game, and still have your key, you can torrent the game LEGALLY, and use YOUR key to play the game.

Qwepir · March 25, 2011, 03:30:49 PM

Legal or not, I'm not torrenting it.

Blastdown · March 25, 2011, 03:31:56 PM

Quote from: naturemon on March 25, 2011, 03:27:56 PM

Thus why torrents are LEGAL, if you purchase the game, and still have your key, you can torrent the game LEGALLY, and use YOUR key to play the game.

~~Torrents are like .zip files.~~ It is what is contained inside them that makes them illegal.

This area is generally gray in the law side of things, the whole "if you own it, pirating it is ok" debate.
I would never suggest doing it even if you owned it beforehand.

naturemon · March 25, 2011, 03:35:52 PM

Quote from: Qwepir on March 25, 2011, 03:30:49 PM

Legal or not, I'm not torrenting it.

Fair enough.

Quote from: Blastdown on March 25, 2011, 03:31:56 PM

Torrents are like .zip files. It is what is contained inside them that makes them illegal.

This area is generally gray in the law side of things, the whole "if you own it, pirating it is ok" debate.
I would never suggest doing it even if you owned it beforehand.

I'll just reedit my post then, don't feel like have the chance of getting banned for something.

Scene · March 25, 2011, 04:24:30 PM

Quote from: naturemon on March 25, 2011, 03:35:52 PM

Fair enough.I'll just reedit my post then, don't feel like have the chance of getting banned for something.

You understand that the quote is in my post right?

naturemon · March 25, 2011, 05:18:37 PM

Quote from: Scene on March 25, 2011, 04:24:30 PM

You understand that the quote is in my post right?

I'm going to just go and presume that quotes aren't a viable source seeing that it can easily be tampered with.

Tingalz · March 25, 2011, 05:31:49 PM

Admins can see a post's history.

naturemon · March 25, 2011, 05:35:43 PM

Quote from: Tingalz on March 25, 2011, 05:31:49 PM

Admins can see a post's history.

Well the way I see it is, I've never seen someone's edited offence be banned, but who knows.

Dropshock · March 25, 2011, 05:51:20 PM

Quote from: Blastdown on March 25, 2011, 03:31:56 PM

Torrents are like .zip files. It is what is contained inside them that makes them illegal.

Wait, what? Torrents are not like .zip files. It's a Peer2Peer connection, meaning there has to be others with the files already downloaded and they have to be seeding for anyone to download it. The torrents tell you who to connect to and what to download so you can get the files. If there is no one seeding, then you cannot download it.

ChexGuy331 · March 25, 2011, 09:37:31 PM

If you registered it, it should be tied to your account and appear in the download manager

Blastdown · March 25, 2011, 11:07:42 PM

Quote from: Dropshock on March 25, 2011, 05:51:20 PM

Op, well please excuse that then.
I tried to put that piece in the right perspective but apparently didn't do so that well.

Qwepir · March 25, 2011, 11:48:49 PM

wellp
solved the problem.

DontCare4Free · March 27, 2011, 11:19:20 AM

Quote from: LeetZero on March 23, 2011, 01:17:46 PM

You mean I can downlaod the games I own already legally?

Yes, I think that would be legal. Sharing it, however isn't, so you can't use torrents or any other P2P-method.
Circumventing the DRM is also illegal.