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Posted May 16, 2011
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wodmarach: Though how someone can say the UK has bandwidth restrictions when Sky will do unlimited for under £15 as will BT and others if they want your custom...
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Lone3wolf: Yeah, technically neither are "unlimited". they have soft-caps (BT's "Unlimited Downloads!" is 100GB per month) after which, they degrade your speed during peak hours : ~1700 - ~0100. Also, they degrade certain ports (P2P, for example) as standard, during these hours, anyway :\
400GB for BT btw I hit it this month downloading all my games for offline backups and the peak is 17.00 to 00.00 before I hit the cap i've never had a single degrade done on the ports even when downloading Linux Iso's off a torrent during peak hours.
What might cause issues is if your exchange has a really crappy contention ratio if it does put in complaints to ofcom about how you don't get a stable service and get friends in the area to do the same
Posted May 16, 2011
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TheJoe: Copying copyrighted material is illegal.

GOG games are DRM free.
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Export: DRM isn't just another word for copyrighted. A console game or music CD are also DRM free and it's still technically illegal to lend them to a friend. Just one of those crazy laws that you can only assume has some obscure meaning beyond simply punishing me for letting my friend borrow a game for a few days.
Maybe I can assist with this miscommunication. When I put his comment in Google Translate and set language to TheJoe, it says "it is illegal but technically possible. You decide."
Posted May 16, 2011
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wodmarach: Though how someone can say the UK has bandwidth restrictions when Sky will do unlimited for under £15 as will BT and others if they want your custom...
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Lone3wolf: Yeah, technically neither are "unlimited". they have soft-caps (BT's "Unlimited Downloads!" is 100GB per month) after which, they degrade your speed during peak hours : ~1700 - ~0100. Also, they degrade certain ports (P2P, for example) as standard, during these hours, anyway :\
Yeah, that's the so-called Fair Use Agreement. It's makes sense, though, since the limits do tend to be incredibly high and it's more that you'd only go over them if you're going nuts and pirating every single decent game and movie that came out that month. As for the P2P one, you can at least change your port, encrypt the traffic and block "incoming legacy connections" in your torrent client.
Posted May 16, 2011
I'm about 350metres (in a straight line) from my exchange - connection is remarkably stable and consistent, if a little slower than what I could be getting sat right on top of it. :P

I get a warning from BT via email when I reach 80GB - and I've hit that maybe 3 times in ~6 years (basically, last time, a hard drive died, and I needed to redownload a shiteload of music, TV shows, and other assorted backups.

I probably could do with a cheaper plan, 40GB say, but for the few quid extra per month, I may as well stay with the "Unlimited", and not worry about watching iPlayer, downloading massive gog installers, streaming music and TV, etc...

"It works for me" :D
Posted May 16, 2011
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Lone3wolf: I probably could do with a cheaper plan, 40GB say, but for the few quid extra per month, I may as well stay with the "Unlimited"
Next time your contracts due say "I've just been offered unlimited for £15 by sky so can I just get a MAC number as I think I'll move to them" my unlimited costs me £12 a month which is less than some people pay for 10GB
Posted May 16, 2011
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Export: DRM isn't just another word for copyrighted.
He never said it was.

Read his words exactly as written. Don't try to put other meanings into them and you will see the message. What is done with that information is up to the reader.
Post edited May 16, 2011 by Miaghstir
Posted May 16, 2011
Thank you for all your comments and suggestions...
Since then I have sent the above question to gog.com support...
Here is the quoted reply.

Hello,

You can give them the installation files and they're free to use them as long as they have the game on their own GOG.com accounts.

Regards,
Firek

GOG.com Support
Posted May 16, 2011
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TheJoe: Copying copyrighted material is illegal.

GOG games are DRM free.
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Export: DRM isn't just another word for copyrighted. A console game or music CD are also DRM free and it's still technically illegal to lend them to a friend. Just one of those crazy laws that you can only assume has some obscure meaning beyond simply punishing me for letting my friend borrow a game for a few days.
That's not what I'm saying.

GOG games are DRM free is what I'm saying.
Posted May 16, 2011
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Ebon-Hawk: Thank you for all your comments and suggestions...
Since then I have sent the above question to gog.com support...
Here is the quoted reply.

Hello,

You can give them the installation files and they're free to use them as long as they have the game on their own GOG.com accounts.

Regards,
Firek

GOG.com Support
That's excellent to hear.
Posted May 16, 2011
Just to clarify. There's no watermarking or other DRM nonsense on the files.
Posted May 16, 2011
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Egotomb: Have the original setup files been removed from the CD images?
Sorry I meant cd key, well serial codes but close enough.
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