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Yeah try running older games and software on a 64 bit OS, just TRY to do so without piracy...good luck with that! I have been 64 bit since XP X64 came out and i can tell you THANK GOD FOR PIRATES because without them frankly a lot of stuff simply wouldn't work. things have gotten better now for NEWER software but the old stuff? good luck.

Oh and a bit of a warning for those that may not have gone 64 bit yet...DO NOT install older versions of games with Starforce or SecuROM DRM on a 64 bit OS and try to run them without cracking first! if you do they will try to embed 32 bit kernel hooks into your 64 bit kernel and that is B.A.D as your stability will go right down the toilet, I'm telling you the BSODs will be like Win95 all over again! And the best part? their DRM uninstaller DOES NOT WORK on a 64 bit OS! So if you end up like this you had better have a dual boot with another Windows so you can go in and hack the junk out, otherwise its reinstall city.

So I can totally understand why many pirate, i mean if you are gonna have to pay for it and STILL have to crack the stupid thing just to get it to run why pay for it in the first place? I don't know if this will parse but this video (warning: Language NSFW) really nails it, watch as the guy (who has a HUGE gaming collection behind him) can't even get his game to run without cracking it.

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"this video really nails it"

Wow, what a temperament! But really, who of us haven't been in the same predicament? This year I was bitten by rosetta stone DRM, which isn't cheap but it was rendered useless without a crack. It's pathetic that companies think so little of their paying customers that they are willing to put them through this mess. The DRM they force upon us takes away fair use rights that we are legally entitled to (like simply running the software on our machines).

Software retailers (like newegg & staples here) explicitly deny refunds on opened/downloaded software that fails to run, so once you buy it your out the cost of the software whether it works or not.

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