So I have bought The Witcher 2 on both pc and X360(had to have the Dark Edition :P ) and now my father thinks this looks realy fun and want to try it.

Can he use my The Witcher 2 Gog.com version of the game? Or am I violation some laws by doing that?

Thanks for any information regarding this :)

As long as you wont play the same version at the same time as your father (for example - on the other PC) I think you are perfectly fine.

And DRM.. what DRM? :o

This is GOG! You buy it, you own it!

Do you ever let your dad read a book you bought? Or watch a movie you bought? I listen to an album you bought? The same concept applies. Unless you are in the habit of making copies of your movies or music to share with a few thousand of your closest friends on the internet then treat the game the same way you treat any other form of media.

Honor system. Technically, each and every person should have his own licence of the game, but no one is going to get a hernia if you install it on a different PC in your household.

As long as you give it to close family members only you are fine under EU laws. Back in my day, that was at least possible. It however was limited to very close people and I don't remember exactly how it was, but father was probably fine under that law (as was wife, children, etc.).

Just install it on his PC and pretend you never asked. In my opinion it is not piracy.

Thanks for the response everyone :)

I think we blow DRM into being more than it actually is and make it out as being an almost supernatural guardian of digital media when it is only trying to place the same restrictions on online products that we have with physical products, and very ineffectively which is understandable. When I was younger and we didn't have these fancy direct to download sites (ten years ago) and we actually had to trade physical copies of games with each other. Think of it in the same terms; If you couldn't physically let someone borrow a hard copy of the game then you would be out of line in the eyes of the DRM gods.

If you anger the DRM gods, especially the Patron God Steam, your computer will melt.

I think there's some confusion between DRM and the GOG terms of use. GOG has stated before that you can install your games on as many computers as you own and they have no issue with people letting family members (that live in the same household) share their games.

There is no DRm on GOG games.

There's a big difference between buying a toaster and having to call the company to "activate" the toaster, though. It's not a perfect comparison by any means.

All Gog games come with free-DRM!

I always thought it's DRM-free :D

That's how they getcha'!

If only more games came with this amazing feature!

Actually the comparison is pretty good. What DRM currently does is making sure that you're the only person using the toaster. If the toaster had today's DRM you'd buy it, then have to call the company who made it to activate it, they would ask you to register the toaster to only one kitchen and give you only three activations in other kitchens before it's useless. And if you change the cooker then it would be interpreted as a new kitchen. You also can't sell it or rent it to anyone, because you'd waste the activation or the particular toaster is tied to your kitchen only ;)
Is it only me that if you compare digital media to any other normal thing the DRM monster looks totally stupid?

Luckily GOG games are completely free of that nonsense.