I would argue that it was successful, then again, I wrote it.
1. It managed to pull a long winded rebuttal out of someone with something I spun in about 3 minutes.
2. Dshiznit pulling the key.dat down off the file space was worth it.
3. Dshiznit seems to think it's a lawyer.
I started writing a response to what's his name's long post but decided I wouldn't let him goad me into admitting I'm not a lawyer (which I never actually said, they just assumed it from the language and dropping a 4 letter acronym). Plus my response started sounding like an apology.
(PS, if you're reading this Dshiznit and elrunethe2nd, circumventing the demo software by fooling it into thinking you have a legitimate offline copy to unlock features that you weren't intended to have is, in fact, a breach of the EULA. As to whether this would successfully hold up in court, you'd have to ask someone knowledgeable in law, of which I clearly am not. But the whole "1 person stealing the game doesn't hurt your sales" argument doesn't really fly, you might as well group that argument in with "It's not piracy if you download a game to see if you like it and then either buy it later or delete it after 24 hours." Unauthorized distribution of copyrighted material is infringement, no matter what moral qualifiers you try and attach to it to keep a clean conscience.)
