User blog comment:CruzDude/Next Battlefield Game/@comment-399051-20100609222238

@PGB (sorry, the really old comment about backups) - My dad's a trading standards officer on counterfitting. Your point about backups was interesting, but wrong (for PC anyway).

In legal terms, if you buy it on disk, then install it on your PC hard drive, then the disk copy is the original and the hard drive copy is the backup, everything else is illegal