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@Hollow Man Yep, that was clear to me. The version on the DVD is clean. And apparently, the first patches only need a serial registration to be downloaded, but no activation on the target machine of the patched executable afterwards. @Netriak Thanks for the link. However there are some contradictory info: - post #2 and #15 suggests it is in some way hardware-linked. - post #35 says otherwise, but the example given only show that there might be some tolerance

Thanks for the answer. Regarding what is taken into account during the machine hash, I still doubt it is solely based on the windows install. Moreover, what is a "windows install"? How can I access this information? Maybe this "windows install" code already take into account some hardware parts info. Based on this [link="https://www.stardock.com/StardockActivationInfo.asp"]source[/link], there are some "non-personally identifiable machine information", which are said to be logged. My ide

Hi there, As a potential consumer very concerned about intrusive copy protections, I'm desesperatly trying to have a definite summary of how the protection used by Stardock games works. By digging from various sources, here what I have understood : - The game on the DVD has no DRM at all. Period. - Stardock does no use disk-based protection techniques. The disk is not used as a dongle and didn't need to be in the drive. - However