Posted December 29, 2014
shmerl: That's why I said artificial restrictions. Architecture compatibility is a given fact. If you want to run one on another you need to use emulation (QEMU etc.). But adding a password is an artificially added restriction not dictated by any technical necessity. So it is DRM.
Gersen: Well apparently it was dictated by a technical necessity : to prevent some "too intelligent for their own good" browser from thinking those were RAR files and offering to open them. You could even say that it was also dictated by a "practical" reason : to prevent from accidentally opening and extracting the archive and ending up with an non-installed partially working game. Post edited December 29, 2014 by shmerl