No. Not this time. I already told flub. Maybe next one. Good luck.
But, I will be watching...

Too bad, you were a great asset and player

Ok, let's say my brothers go to work and they periodically need to take their PCs with them. Is it ok if they still play from their computer, even though they're technically away from our house?

Also, how does that apply in shared rooms in school/college? Your roommates and you are short on money, so you decide to buy games on GOG to be able to share it between yourselves. Each of you play the game on each's PC, sometimes together on LAN.

Similar to what JMich said above; how you treat it morally is up to you, but legally you should read the license and see what it says (most likely, the licence is personal, which means you should all really have your own copies regardless of your living arrangements).

It was brought to my attention that a GOG forum moderator himself said they cannot and will not press charges against someone who does this. (link shared by JMich) So it's purely a moral choice? No punishment whatsoever?

I'll be a dummy here and admit I don't get threads like this. Sounds like - hypothetically - you've already decided on an approach and perhaps are even - hypothetically - putting it into practice. Unless you go talking about it, who's going to accuse you of piracy?

No I will not answer this one, but in my post above you can read a little bit about the implication ;)

And yes this is for MOST western worlds......and even some others...........

Ethically, I believe both counts are wrong.

As I stated above, not only ethical ;)

Not really. I hold no friends and my family prefer to play on consoles (and they rarely do nowadays). I just want to know how does the DRM-free policies apply and what are their limitations. General knowledge. Could become useful if any family member of mine sees the light and moves to PC.

That was pretty detailed, thanks. Though I really don't know what is the punishment for piracy. In my city, it's pretty common to see videogame stores that offer you to put "chips" to be able to play pirated games for Xbox 360 and PS3, along with pirated games. Almost everyone I used to know pirated their games and no one was ever sanctioned. Hell, even companies around here -- big and small -- prefer to contract the guy who repairs computers to install a pirated Windows on each of their workers' PCs.

Morally I believe that more than one player playing at a time is wrong (if only one license was bought and obviously not on the same machine). DRM enforces this kind of thing, the games being DRM free means GOG trust its client not to do it while permitting them the freedom to have backups and multiple installs.

There used to be some game licenses that permitted the multiplayer scenario on a LAN but I haven't seen one of those in a long time.

Now we get down down to the nitty gritty.

You can shiver your timbers here if you want:-

http://www.gog.com/game/pirates_gold_plus

just pay up for the bloody pieces of eight if you are worried about how much your conscience is worth.

Believe one thing, I was quite a bit around the woirld, working in more countries (shorter or longer, than a lot of people remember out of their geography lessons).

I know that the rules are not applied as they should be. That's why I answered the way I did, for clarification ;)

Nothing else and in all friendship ;)

For punishment: For example, companies could ban you from getting support, accessing their websites (or like in the case of like World of Warcraft, suspending/canceling your account) and similar. This would be even true for an IP-range. Spectacular anouncement quite a while a ago, when Microsoft sopkesman (or similar) declared, they would stop support for the south Corean region, if they would not do anything against piracy: Response of the government: OK, we will switch to Linux. (you can read up onti, if you want)

So it is up to the company to take, what they decide, appropiate measures.

But legally, they have all options opened, as the burden of proof would be against you ;) Just saying that you have pirated or similar would be enough, as you would have to disprove it (much fun with that one ;) )