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that version not drm-free
u can see ACTIVATED
that mean its steam game use cracked steam api
it can work witout steam
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Or it's fake. Either way their are at least people pretending to be Linux pirates. They could be hackers trying to get people to install their backdoor disguised as a game.
As to the original question. I think all we can really do is make it clear that we do not support piracy, which Liam seems to do a pretty good job of on the site. We could have a forum post, maybe even have it permanently visible on front page that attests to our opposition of piracy... something along those lines.
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Moving to Linux completely changed my attitude. Now I'm 28 and for 7 years I use Linux and for 4-5 years I'm completely free of illegal software. Unfortunately I do download a TV series that I have no access to in VOD way in my country.
There is no point to crack a GOG game since it's DRM free.
A simple search for "activated.nfo" will tell you which protection they crack.
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Your lack of willingness to try to understand is showing. I don't have time to write out a whole comment atm so I'll just leave you guys with this short story:
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It's a good story and all - the original is more succinct, however if you think it somehow justified piracy then I think you need to sit down and think hard on what it actually means. ( Hint: what supposed injustice is piracy battling ? - and no your inability to pay for the game doesn't count )
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Sorry to be off topic but I highly recommend 'WPS Office' for Linux. Free for Linux and has the best OpenXML (docx/xlsx/etc) support you can get under Linux.
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I almost forgot I even posted in here. Anyway, I only shared the story in a lame attempt to emphasize that our perspectives are just that; a perspective. It is too easy to declare the actions of others an absolute idiocy without having taken the effort to understand them. I used to be staunch believer that drm cracking, key sharing and the like == bad. But after hearing the "opposition" explain, for example, how they've needed to circumvent region locking (a problem I never even knew of, being from the US) I came to realize that the situation isn't so black and white.
The amusing part of trying to deliver a voice for the other side on GOL is that people immediately assume the messenger is a filthy pirate so let's get the litmus test out of the way: I have never stolen a computer game in my life.
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Closest to MS is probably MS Office 2010 or 2013 under wine :)
However I see your point, Why buy Microsoft office when you can have pretty much all features that an average person needs with WPS Office which happens to be quite similar and compatible with MS's formats... Office programs from MS are really useless investment when having WPS, LibreOffice and even online office suits like Word online, Google docs...
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I managed to find Heavy Gear 2 on Amazon, and it installs and runs on current Debian Sid. There is a website out there, which is unfortunately eluding me at the moment, that has patches for all their games that should make them run more or less on modern systems.
I will say that there is one good purpose of piracy. To save all that software that would have otherwise have been lost. The preservation of games that never did very well, or were on the Atari 8-bit line of computers, or those rare gold gems that were on the C64. Those will never be for sale again, and they're old enough that they should no longer be under copyright (ha, project gutenberg for software?) And let's face it, that's all piracy is, copyright infringement. You'd like a good author of a book to do well, tell your friends it's an awesome book, and hopefully they'll write more as they get more money. Just remember most big name games are marketed through a publisher, who generally just pays X amount to a developer, unless that developer is really good, then they could potentially get a royalty based contract. If they don't get royalties piracy hurts the publisher not the developer. Granted, if everyone pirates the game instead of buys it, then the publisher will think the game was crap, and won't order up a sequel.
But yeah for all the retro stuff out there that'll never again see the light of day on modern systems, I say copy and copy again so it's not lost to time.
There was another post in this thread that ultimately piracy becomes a matter of collecting. I used to be a terrible pirate, but storing all that crap locally takes way too much space. Especially when Steam has a sale and I can buy the option to permanently download it at any given time for 5 bucks.
I now have 1600 games in my steam library, so I have paid off my debt and then some. Then of course there are those games that were so epic I've bought multiple copies throughout the years (I'm thinking Raven Shield and Neverwinter Nights here... oh please someone do some porting of some Rainbow Six games!)
More on topic, yeah I've seen some of the Loki things in torrents, and sadly that may be the only way you can get them now. Would be fantastic if someone could get the publishing rights for the Linux versions of such great games as Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri, and Civilization Call To Power (I beta tested that one back in the day!)