(And that's before they made it completely free.) There's no reason why Microsoft couldn't have taken the same route in general when decommissioning the whole system. Completely removing all copy protection in favour of keeping it running. You know what Blizzard did in response to the shutdown? They released a Starcraft patch that made the game a NoCD hard disc install. Seems a fair bit more illegal to me to deprive millions of customers of functionality on a game they paid for. As mentioned, pirated copies are irrelevant since they got around the system literal decades ago. So the only people affected by this are people who have bought the game before the SafeDisc shutdown, and people buying original discs second-hand. Not to mention, all of this is about fairly old games that the game companies no longer make any profit on they literally can't sell the game on discs like that anymore since it no longer works. Which is really a non-issue since CloneCD and virtual drives have long supported emulating SafeDisc, and most pirated copies use NoCD full hard disc install solutions and already circumvented the system. The only difference is that illegal copies will now also work.
How is that illegal? The actual underlying system is disabled anyway. Uhh, what? I mean if Microsoft made sure that SafeDisc requests would just succeed without doing any real checks, rather than fail.
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