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[Don Andy]

Another thing to consider is that CD-check DRM does prevent some casual piracy. It doesn't prevent people who know how to use torrents and all that, but it *does* prevent people who want to just let their friend borrow the disk, install it, and play it without the disk. Not everyone is equally sophisticated, and even if DRM prevents only 10% of the stupider pirates, that's 10%.

That's actually a pretty good point, I didn't really think of that. Back then when I was a "casual pirate" (as was like everybody else) you really just had to copy the CD with a CD-Burner (if you had the luxury of owning one) and be done with it.

[Bennett]

You can't resell a pirated copy.

But you can't.

No, I was laughing at the idea that this would be a reason to get a legitimate copy (probably that's not what you meant, but it's how I read it.) Obviously, if you paid $0 for your copy, you don't care much about its resale price.

[ஒழுக்கின்மை (Paul Eres)]

Just a note: If you buy Fallout 3 on Steam it's 10$ cheaper than in stores and doesn't have securom. It still has Steam, which is a form of DRM, but it's probably better to get it on Steam than to buy it in stores. I bought it today and it's pretty great so far.

[Renton]

I bought retail and it hasn't made any problems on my machine so far. In fact, it kinda stopped asking for the DVD after a while 

[Radnom]

Yeah, mine's never asked me for the DVD... well, apart from when I installed it of course. I was very glad. I love it when I don't need to change CDs. I'm very lazy.

[Lord Tim]

It seems to me that it will only ask you for the CD if you run the Launcher. If you run just the .exe, you don't need the CD.

The thing is, though, I'm pretty sure you have to use the Launcher if you want to add custom data modules (i.e. mods/expansions), but as long as you're not adding any mods(Once added, you can use the exe again), you can just run straight from the HDD.