mistyping a key wont make another key. They dont work like that. I can understand a pirate such as yourself having never actually typed a product key not knowing this. its ok.
Bizarrely illogical straw man followed by two incorrect assertions for which you had absolutely no basis. Not to mention the ridiculousness of labelling someone who has a fair number of posts to their name on the PC gaming forum as "never having actually typed a product key", or that you even asserted in this thread that FSL's system was based on known pirated keys, so naturally in the spirit of this topic a pirate would have typed product keys before.
At this point I don't believe you're honestly invested in your argument position.
The way this company has gone about things is the stupidest way possible. It means they cant take any legal action against any of their pirates (due to illegally gathering their evidence and it therefor being inadmissible, plus the danger of a counter case of far greater magnitude), plus they are open to many, many actions against them.
The thing that I least understand about their apparent strategy is that they went after people who were unlikely to ever buy that product, and in doing so they've made another group of people who might have considered buying any of their products who now never will (unless a seriously grovelling apology is issued and execs being fired). It's my impression that most gamers here have their own list of companies they won't buy games from because of anti-customer policies, I certainly do. There's also a good chance that many anti-malware vendors would treat FSL's install programs as likely to contain malware, or at least the one relevant to this topic.
What on earth did they think was going to happen in even the simplest scenario? They trash a user's computer, then... profit?
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