So hey, I thought, I'm going to go break out an old copy of Company of Heroes and play it for nostalgia's sake. Whoops! Turns out I lost my game manual, probably left it in a bathroom somewhere. Guess what that means? My legally purchased copy of Company of Heroes is now void. I check the support page, and you know what they link to? A D2D purchase of Company of Heroes! 
 
You know what? Fuck that. I have a game I bought legally sitting right in front of me, and I can't install it because of some rudimentary dinosaur DRM from 2004. CD keys can go suck my dick. It's keygen warez time!

Cool story bro.

The same thing happened to me with Red Alert 2. DRM sucks more for the legal user than it does for pirates.

take a photo of it and try to get a new one? lol it's a far cry but you seem to have you sights set on other methods.

Dude, it's similar to my opinion on cross-platform gaming. Honestly, I've got two copies of Borderlands. I want to shoot myself in the foot for buying two copies of the same game, but it was necessary to play with different friends of mine.  That being said, I'm actually considering purchasing a THIRD copy of Battlefield: MW2 because of the same thing.  
 
Ten years ago, if you bought a second copy of a game, you'd be seemingly retarded.
 
I know that it's never going to happen, but man, I'd love to see some kind of cross-platform support; at least relating back to PC. There's no reason that I have to pay $200 for three copies of the same game, just to play with different friends; especially when Windows Live Games makes money off two/three copies. It's the same effing parent company.   
 
At least Jungler follows me wherever I go...

" Dude, it's similar to my opinion on cross-platform gaming. Honestly, I've got two copies of Borderlands. I want to shoot myself in the foot for buying two copies of the same game, but it was necessary to play with different friends of mine.  That being said, I'm actually considering purchasing a THIRD copy of Battlefield: MW2 because of the same thing."