Licensing for games?

Hi guys
I’m sure there are a number of you aware of a series of games called Football Manager. The newst installment of the game, Football Manager 2009, will be released on November 14th and the developers of the game have released some information on the game including licensing issues as below. This is the first time they have done this in the series and until now it was just a matter of mouning and image or burning to disc and copying the crack but this seems a bit trickier. Is anybody aware of any such process already in esistence for other games and if so is it an easy problem to overcome? I haven’t paid for a copy of the game for quiet a few years now and I don’t intend paying anytime soon either Thanks
Now, there's also been a lot of talk on the forums about copy protection, and how we are planning to handle it this year, particularly in light of recent press with certain other titles and Securom, which we have used in the past.
We have followed those stories closely, but already had our plan in place for this year, and are happy with the choices that we have made.
I am therefore happy to be able to announce today that, for the first time in the Football Manager series since we started making the game, you will not require the disc to be in the drive each time you start the game if you are playing on the PC! Instead, you will need to authenticate your game.
This can be done in 3 different ways.
The first is via STEAM, as mentioned above. By authenticating through STEAM, you will automatically receive patches as soon as they become available. The second is a simple online transaction, which will take less than 30 seconds. The third, for people who are not online, is via telephone registration, with local call numbers in each country where we release the game, and this will take about 5 minutes to complete from our experience in testing.
We highly recommend the online authentication processes, as they are quick and easy.
Despite the license agreement that comes with the game stating that you can only install on one machine, we are well aware that many people like to play the game on personal laptops, as well as desktops, and our licenses for Football Manager 2009 will work in a very similar way to ITunes.
This means that you will get 5 licenses for personal use, so you can play the game on up to 5 computers as long as you own them, and the owner of the game is the person playing on said machines. If you uninstall the game on one of the PC's you have the game installed on, you get that "seat" back.
As an example, say you have installed the machine on your work laptop, your work PC, your home PC and your home laptop. You would then have used up 4 out of your 5 uses of the game. Your home desktop has some problems, so you decide to re-install windows on it. As long as you uninstall the game from that machine first, you will get that license back, and when you re-install, will still only be using 4 of your 5 installs.
Please note that the license when you purchase the game is explicit that you are only allowed to use the game for your own personal use.
Answer #1
wtf
why do they have to ~ censored ~ up fm
now we will w8 more for the upload
Answer #2
wtf
why do they have to ~censored~ up fm
now we will w8 more for the upload
I know!! It is so annoying – so annoying that I am even contemplating downloading it from STEAM
Answer #3
well
if its really gonna be
i hope somebody releases non steam versions
like for nba 2k9
Answer #4
well
if its really gonna be
i hope somebody releases non steam versions
like for nba 2k9
There will be non steam versions released as you can still buy it on a DVD-Rom (because of the new 3D pitch) so I’m sure there will be rips available. I’m just hoping somebody will be able to overcome the licensing issue!!!
Answer #5
'm just hoping somebody will be able to overcome the licensing issue!!!

yes i thought about that
well lets just hope