EA Games VS My Brother

To start this story off you need to know a little about my older bro Jon. First off Jon is a genius, almost evil genius but his head problems aren't at that point yet. Jon supposedly has an IQ of 150 or something extremely high like that. This information comes from my father who can be highly questionable most of the time. Jon suffers from a myriad of emotional and psychological problems, because with great power comes great responsibility, most notably anxiety and depression, although if you ever met him you would think he's an everyday joe. Just to reaffirm he's a little off his rocker, Jon decided when he was 18 to go to bed for a year. He promptly did. After a series of electric shocks to the old brainola and trying several different cocktail's of medicines, he managed to come around enough to land himself on government disability (mostly with help from my mother). In Illinois we have this great program called Home Base, which allows my brother to go to the movies, eat out, buy crap, and drive around in a car, and get this, he gets reimbursed for it all. That's right the good ol Illinois Gov pays him to do shit! That's a whole other post for another time. So Jon bought himself a computer with his government pay, and that's where the trouble with EA began.

I bought Jon/myself a copy of EA's Medal of Honor for the PC. I don't remember why Jon wanted to copy the game, I think it was so his friend could play it, but he found out that EA had built in the game a block for that. This sent my brother off the hook. He ranted for hours about how it was his right to copy the game, according to him its perfectly legal to copy any disc for backup reasons only. Anyone know if this is true? Even though he wanted to copy it for back up reasons he was still going to give the copy to his friend. His reasoning never really makes sense, that's why he's crazy. So Jons pissed and decides the only way he can get even with EA and game company's like it, is to start bootlegging their games, and not buying them of course. Jon doesn't sell the games he downloads, even though he goes through all the trouble of making a case and a little professional looking jacket and CD label. According to Jon, what he is doing is a sign of protest for what the game company's are doing to their software and him. Hell my brother never even plays the games he downloads. Instead he throws them in a pile on his floor in his plush little apartment in chicago's swanky LincolnPark. Hes been up to this for a couple of years now and has amassed quite the collection. I believe his bootlegged porno collection is bigger, which he hasn't given me an explanation for why that's not illegal. Jon urges all of you in internet land to download games in protest of the non-ability to make your own backup copy.