Theoretical example: Your significant other comes to your house for dinner. Do you refuse to cook anything for him/her because they didn't buy their own stove? And do you yell at your friends for sitting down without buying an additional chair?
I'm going to make a wild guess here and say that most of you will answer "No".
So why does Activision get a free pass when they expect you to do so with their product?
I buy a stove, I decide who I cook dinner for, not GE.
I buy a chair, I decide who gets to sit on it when I have guests, not IKEA.
I buy a game, I decide which of my friends I can play games with, not Activision. If they breach a bunch of consumer laws to prevent that, So be it, I'll exercise my right of being allowed to do whatever I want to my own property to make it happen anyway and get an offline crack.
FAQ:
EBIL PWIRATE!!!1!!
1st, get off your high horse, this is a widely discussed topic with widely varying opinions, yours is not better then the rest. 2nd, different countries, different laws, as said, I'm allowed to do whatever I want with any object I own, I can install it while sitting upside down, I can put a rickroll video in every file directory and I can add an offline.exe file to it. 3rd, downloading a crack will not magically intercept and stop the money I paid for my preorder.
But the TOS...
...Is not a legally binding document in the EU since I can't read it before purchasing the game and I think this also applies to the US.
But I do serve my GF cold food and not allow my friends to sit down.
Congratulations, you are only being a jerk instead of a hypocrite.
I'm going to make a wild guess here and say that most of you will answer "No".
So why does Activision get a free pass when they expect you to do so with their product?
I buy a stove, I decide who I cook dinner for, not GE.
I buy a chair, I decide who gets to sit on it when I have guests, not IKEA.
I buy a game, I decide which of my friends I can play games with, not Activision. If they breach a bunch of consumer laws to prevent that, So be it, I'll exercise my right of being allowed to do whatever I want to my own property to make it happen anyway and get an offline crack.
FAQ:
EBIL PWIRATE!!!1!!
1st, get off your high horse, this is a widely discussed topic with widely varying opinions, yours is not better then the rest. 2nd, different countries, different laws, as said, I'm allowed to do whatever I want with any object I own, I can install it while sitting upside down, I can put a rickroll video in every file directory and I can add an offline.exe file to it. 3rd, downloading a crack will not magically intercept and stop the money I paid for my preorder.
But the TOS...
...Is not a legally binding document in the EU since I can't read it before purchasing the game and I think this also applies to the US.
But I do serve my GF cold food and not allow my friends to sit down.
Congratulations, you are only being a jerk instead of a hypocrite.