am i doing something wrong(imoral and / or illeagle?

[gormonk]

i have recently taken up createing disk img of the games installed on my pc... so i can run them without the disk... is this illeagle??

[KaotikKreator]

I'm not 100% sure (I haven't fully read the EULA in about 4 years) but I believe that you are allowed to make a second copy of your game disk, provided that:

 

1) You do not profit from it in any way

 

2) You don't make the disk image available online for download (This one may not be as viable in this day and age, I'm not too sure) [better safe than sorry!] :biggrin:

 

and..

 

3) You have previously bought the 100% legit retail copy of the game (This one obviously doesn't apply here, but I thought I'd provide all stipulations with making copies of CDs, DVDs, or BluRays. (Not too positive that I spelled that right)

 

Hope this answers your question!

Edited September 22, 2010 by KaotikKreator

[BlackBaron2]

Well, IIRC, most EULAs allow for us to make a personal backup of legally bought games. As long as the backup stays personal, you should be perfectly fine. :)

[TheTerminator2004]

As far as UK law is concerned, you are allowed to make backup copies of any software, music, films, etc you purchase. So long as you don't then distribute them to anyone else, it's fine. I don't know much about US law though.

[gormonk]

<<is in NZ as for ligitamancy.. is brought copys... gots dileup so no distrubriting... and there on my Tb externail... yay.. i can run me games without disks

[evilneko]

Nope.

[CommanderCrazy]

AU and NZ share the same rules I believe. If so, you can have one digital backup of a legitimately purchased game, DVD or CD, but you cannot redistribute it in any way (this includes giving friends the external drive so they can use them) and you must destroy the backup when you are done with it.

[KaotikKreator]

D- d- destroy? Really? .....Goodbye, Caesar II.... :(

[Vagrant0]

AU and NZ share the same rules I believe. If so, you can have one digital backup of a legitimately purchased game, DVD or CD, but you cannot redistribute it in any way (this includes giving friends the external drive so they can use them) and you must destroy the backup when you are done with it.

The destroy part only comes into things when you have no intention of ever playing the game again.

 

As for the question, yes, in most cases you are allowed to create a copy of a game you own, for your own uses... This also includes burning it to a disc instead of using just a .iso file so that you don't need to use other software to get around disc checks.

 

However, newer games are starting to severely limit this sort of thing by means of DRM software that prevents copying of the disc or even drive operation if it also has the ability to burn data. This is one of the reasons why Securom was so severely disliked.

[TheTerminator2004]

You only need to destroy all your copies of the software when the license is terminated. For games, this basically means if you give your game to someone else (or sell it), you need to destroy all your other copies of the game. Otherwise, there's no need to destroy anything.