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General Category => Tech Support and Chat => Frequently Asked Questions => Topic started by: BFM_Hydra on October 14, 2008, 06:43:29 PM

Title: Halo Licensing - What does it all mean? (Post Questions/Concerns too) (CD KEYS!)
Post by: BFM_Hydra on October 14, 2008, 06:43:29 PM

The Halo CD/disk - in whatever form you can get it/have it - DOES NOT MATTER, except that it contain a readable copy of Halo for installation when and as needed.

You are in fact entitled to make any/all copies of it that you like SO LONG AS THEY ARE FOR YOU OWN PERSONAL USE.

For ON-LINE play (and possibly only a problem if you're in the same server, but I've had evidence to the contrary on that a looong time ago) each and every RUNNING COPY OF HALO MUST HAVE A UNIQUE ("CD") key.

SO KEEP YOUR Halo ("CD") key PRIVATE, because if anyone else gets it, they basically "own" YOUR COPY OF HALO.

Lastly, your Halo "CD" key CANNOT POSSIBLY BE DETERMINED from your on-line version of that key (also known as your "(Halo/CD) hash" but it is a unique identifier that goes hand-in-hand with THAT ("CD") KEY.  (I.e. Through "computer magic" every "hash" matches one, and ONLY ONE Halo "CD" key....)

So when you're tracked on-line or "banned" from a server, that server remembers your uniquely-identifying "hash," not your Halo ("CD") key.

Direct from the Halo End-User License Agreement - which you agreed to when you installed the software, BTW:

1.   GRANT OF LICENSE.  This EULA grants you the following rights:
·   Applications Software.  You may only install, access, and run (“RUN”) one copy of the SOFTWARE PRODUCT, or any prior version of the SOFTWARE PRODUCT for the same operating system, on a single personal computer, (“COMPUTER”) for your personal, noncommercial use.  If not prevented by copy protection technology, the primary user of the COMPUTER on which the SOFTWARE PRODUCT is installed may make a second copy for his or her exclusive and personal noncommercial use on a portable computer.

[Emphasis mine.]





Written by MrMxyzptlk. BFM_Hydra takes no responsibility for any incorrect information that you may have read in this extract. If you have any questions or concerns please direct them to MrMxyzptlk or post in this thread for evaluation and answers.

Title: Re: Halo Licensing - What does it all mean? (Post Questions/Concerns too)
Post by: BFM_JANE on October 15, 2008, 02:06:47 AM

I think this thread would attract more attention if it mentioned "CD key" in the title. Feel free to delete this post, Hydra, if you disagree or decide against it. :)

NHF ;)