>I didn't hear the masses complaining about suddenly being able to play the games at the time, despite the
> fact that even then it was obviously a "giant hack", as Haze put it. Aren't
> double standards a wonderful thing?

I don't have an opinion either way on this matter, but people were definately were crying out at the XOR releases rather than pure decryption from the beginning. Many of the same people as those who posted in this topic as a matter of fact.

If you didn't hear people complaining back then, than you weren't paying attention.