@G-man: Please, show me the part in the original post that has anything related to "backing up original PC games and making these backups work", the gist of what this forum and the GCW site is about. If you can't - and you definitely can't as this posts was about problems with an original game, not a backup! -, there's nothing for you to complain about this particular thread.
As for the forum rules and moderator attitude in general on this forum, 1) both are strict to hush away (read: ban) idiots who come here and (try to) discuss their non-working warez copies and 2) it's none of your business anyway. (If someone downloads games, that's "fine", just don't waste anyone's time with making it work. If you're so smart that you can download games, also be smart enough to make them work. Otherwise buy the original and complain at the publisher - NOT HERE! - if you have problems using it.) Again, if you don't like the forum rules, please. leave. (Or create your own forum where everything - including warez - can be discussed so that noone will have the right to call your forum "a bunch of hypocrites" or similar. Rest assured that warez-user idiots will suffocate your forum long before it is closed down because of a game publisher filing an official complaint at your ISP...
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In short, you don't need to like the forum rules; you "only" have to follow them. If you can't, that's your problem, not the forum's. (Unless you're a really helpful and intelligent person, perhaps, author of many no-CD patches. Then the forum would lose a lot by letting you leave. However, I can't decide from only a dozen posts of yours...)
As for a "very very quiet organised strict forum", yes, I would definitely like that. I would prefer (to be able) to read a few useful and interesting posts a week rather than a dozen senseless posts from idiots with dyslexia (and sometimes dysgraphia, too) every day...