I appreciate your post. I'm definitely not communicating as clearly as I had hoped. This isn't really about my experience last weekend, it's about extrapolating that experience. It's not about my past, it's about all of YOUR futures.

Thank you for your response in this thread.

I think he got down-voted because his past posts prior to this one revolved around his justification of why it's okay for him to pirate games (including specifically GOG games) because he's poor and then following that up with multiple attempts at game begging.
Thank you for the clarification. That's pretty much how I understood it, but there was definitely other information out there that made it not completely clear.

In the case where simply copying the files doesn't work but the game is drm-free, what would I need to do and what files are you refering to, when you say I have everything in the folder? I assume I'd probably need to add somthing to the windows registry? I still haven't found anything detailing how to do this.

I'm quite sure that that's not true from a legal standpoint. I may not have ever signed a distributional deal for a desktop game but I have sure as hell signed dozens of documents that make me solely responsible in case someone accuses one of my clients of harming his rights because of the material I gave them. And I am quite sure that until a judge decides that I never had the right to give them usage rights for the material they can absolutely continue to do so without making themselves liable in any way. I am rather sure that's also pretty much how things work in case of the distribution of entire games.

Okay, let's apply your logic to some other games in the catalogue:
GOG should stop selling Populous because it includes code created by a crackteam (why else would the original copy protection be partially intact rather than completely absent?).
GOG should stop selling Duke Nukem 1+2 because they contain content ripped from Turrican.
GOG should never accept Doom into the catalogue because the Doom 1 OST contains rip-offs of famous metal songs and the Cacodemon is a rip-off of D&D's Astral Dreadnought.
GOG should stop selling Stalker because bitComposer made the ridiculous claim that they have the rights to Stalker.

No, GOG should not stop selling games whenever some claims of copyright infringement are out there and the party being accused of copyright infringement is their partner rather than themselves and the party whose rights are supposedly infringed doesn't even take any legal steps or contact GOG directly.

Nice thread.

Stopping is a last resort, only if some agreement/understanding can't be reached. And yes, it's reasonable that the claimant should contact them. However, they most definitely need to address any such claims, even if it's to say "We've asked, we're good." The code in this particular case was written after Rebellion themselves openly released AvP Gold's source code. And while they prohibit its commercial use, I was never able to find any reference to them retaining rights to modifications made to it. So no, it's not as simple as "someone cracked something."

That's what I thought. I certainly don't appreciate those posts, but I also don't support the "You've said things I don't like before so I'm going to down-vote you no matter what you say" approach either. Just stating my own personal opinion.

Yes it is. The only difference is how likely the person who made the alterations is to step forward.

A person who cracks a binary has no legal rights to the product and is usually doing it against the product's licence.
A person who modifies code under licence has authorial rights as defined by the licence.

There's a world of difference.

Open installscript.vdf with notepad and take a look at it. The "Registry" node is stuff that is entered in the registry, the "Run Process" node is stuff that is executed, with possible command arguments as well. The vdf file is human readable, and it shouldn't be that hard to understand what is needed. Feel free to ask for specific details, but I'd probably need to read the vdf somewhere.

Cool.

Thank you. I'll ask more if I need to.

That's of no relevance to the right to use the code that guy has written.