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Originally Posted by Elgin Clock
Well if no one else is gonna admit a wrong by the group, I will.
That said, I'm guessing because all of the talk of attempting to crack the PDF's last year (yes, it was here on CD in these forums by a small group of individuals), FIRST said no to making the game portion available this year early.
Just another case of a small group of people ruining it for the masses.
Maybe next year they will release it early, and people won't talk about cracking it, and it won't be an issue.
I won't be holding my breath waiting for that though.
I will happily download the game portion of the manual on Sunday morning before our team's kickoff meeting to avoid mass server slowness.
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I wasn't on CD during the 2004 season (scary, isn't it?), but wasn't there talk about cracking the manual then?
Someone will always bring it up, either out of being naive or being dumb. But with three days before Kickoff, three things come to mind:
a) Why bother? Three days, and you can get it without all the effort and guilt.
b) In order to crack the manual before Kickoff, you would need some black-magic, CIA-type computers (assuming one were to use a brute-force method). I'm sure your parents/school/sponsors would love the power bill that comes from running that much crunching power.
c) The DMCA prohibits circumventing "measures that prevent unauthorized access to a copyrighted work" (
source, page three at the bottom). Do you really feel like tangling with federal law just to get a short time advantage on a game for an extracurricular activity?
That said, I think FIRST will release the manual tonight or tomorrow. (Too much travel on Friday, I figure.)