not sure, but looks someone sharing a illegal Sins of a Solar Empire DVD

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im searching some ship picture for my desktop, and i found a search results, thats looks a chinese website sharing Sins of a Solar Empire DVD, so i got 2 screenshots, one is chinese website, and some code looks like CD key, and other one is im try to translate the text to english.







so looks many people downloaded the illegal version on there, why Stardock dont stop them?
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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top
If the website is located in China it is under chinese law and stardock will have hard time suing them.
On the other hand having an illegal DVD grant you a 1.0 game, no patch because you need a valid stardock account. People who downloaded the game may end up buying it to get the updates...

That's what I did: before the demo was out, I downloaded Sins, played a game and since I enjoyed it, I bought the game.
Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top
Actually the patch is available freely from filehosting sites without any problems.

The only thing they can't do is use the Stardock's network I believe.

They can play over Hamachi as well serial key or not.

However that being said, this is an awesome game and that alone convinced me to get the original after playing the downloaded Sins for about a week although I still play over Hamachi.
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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top
A quick Google search reveals a hell of a lot more than just a Chinese site.

That said, Asia and Eastern Europe are the markets with the heaviest saturation of piracy, to the extent where it's pretty much a part of the economy there. They can't really do anything about it.

Additionally, the amount of money and effort it'd require to persecute a few random people would cost more than if they had bought the game in the first place, and it wouldn't stop anyone anyway.
Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top
I think Ironclad is trying a different approach, rather than irritate the kiddies with copy protection they are providing a great game that just by existing without all the meaningless copy protections etc.. will hopefully elicit purchases by people that keep playing it and find a value in it.

I think it's the smart way to do things in this day and age due to piracy being completely unpreventable, and wasting resources on setting up a copy protection is just that - wasted resources. There hasn't been a single game or application ever released sans those that require a hardware dongle, that hasn't been cracked and shared.

I bought my copy and my friends did too, because it's a great game worth supporting.
Reply #5 from Sins Forums Top
That's what I did: before the demo was out, I downloaded Sins, played a game and since I enjoyed it, I bought the game.
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Thanks for helping the pirates *sigh*

Reply #6 from Sins Forums Top
That's what I did: before the demo was out, I downloaded Sins, played a game and since I enjoyed it, I bought the game.
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Same here

Thanks for helping the pirates *sigh*
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Helping the pirates? They don't make a profit off it it, and only provide software for the sake of providing software. I only pay for things I use or enjoy, and I really dislike spending $50 on something I'll never use again.

Sins happens to be phenomenal, and I want to support a company that created such an awesome game, so I went and paid for it.

If a game sucks, is bug ridden, unbalanced, and/or a complete waste of time, I'd rather not have to go to the trouble of returning it for my money back, if I can return it at all, most places don't accept opened games back.

It's the price game companies pay for selling shitty products, and it's a good idea for people who value their money.