Talk:CD key

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Remember, some people who may have accidentally violated the Steam Subscriber Agreement or who really want to play the game but only have 56k (or those who want to have revenge after having their account disabled), will have to resort to downloading pirated copies using BitTorrent and playing on cracked servers instead. There are some sites on the internet that express their hatred to Steam because of all the problems they encountered like waiting for an extremely long time. Most of them had their blood pressure rising so fast until they ended up swearing. --218.208.203.162 08:52, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

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I would be more intrested in laws regarding CD keys. What makes it illegal to publish them on the internet, copyright law? Or is it just the software EULA that says you cannot share CD keys?

IMO (IANAL) CD keys are not covered by anything. It's not an infringment to copy them, however, it is very difficult to come up with a reason to copy these keys that doesn't lead directly to copyright infringment of the software the key is for. So it would be reasonable to consider distribution of these keys to be "aiding and abetting infringment" or an "intent to infringe". 86.16.132.141 09:38, 4 March 2007 (UTC)