[Bug 9685] Punkbuster removes me from game for UNKNOWN WINDOWS API FUNCTION [131124]

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http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9685





--- Comment #167 from Stefan Dösinger <stefandoesinger at gmx.at>  2009-06-11 10:43:52 ---
(In reply to comment #166)
> The DMCA is a criminalization and abbusive law that only applyes to USA. Most
> countries do not have such a limitation, and it's unlikely someday will. This
> being said, if a definitive fix appears, it may be hosted in another country.
The political issues aside, Wine (and its commercial counterparts) are
available in the US, used in the US and stored on US servers. While fighting
the DMCA is probably a noble goal, Wine is not The Pirate Bay or some other
similar website that wants to make political statements with questionable
means, Wine is software that also aims at businesses. So any questionable legal
things will make Wine unusable for businesses, so we can't do that.

> You can't use Virtualbox to run most games that uses Punkbuster, because of the
> lack of Direct3D acceleration. Yes, you can use Swiftshader, but it's painfully
> slow. Yes, latest version of Virtualbox supports OpenGL (never tested), maybe
> some OpenGL games will run.
You can compile wined3d.dll and friends for Windows and use it.

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