actions to fight steam...

[antisocialmunky]

At least it isnt the EA download service.

I bought Northern Strike for Battlefield 2142. Its the expansion pack. Digital Download only. Now, I get permission to download this for a year, after that, I no longer own it. So I have to buy it again if I want to install it.

Usually as long as you own the license to play it, getting it in the original(non-cracked) form any way you can is fine. Maybe direct download stuff puts crap in the EULA but I don't think that's quite legal. Companies put all sorts of junk in the EULA that's not actually within their reasonable legal authority since no one nitpicks those things unless a lawsuit comes up.

I personally like the Op Flashpoint and Arkhem Asylum methods of DRM where they embed hundreds of lines of conditional statements instead of function calls that only work if it can detect a scratch pattern on the disk.

Thereby the game is broken and extremely hard to make player from a cracked version.

Also its pretty hilarious when someone posts the problem on the help forums and gets pwned by the devs.