I bought Freelancer back in 2004 at a mild sale price. It has done me right ever since because I hide my CD from me and copied the entire CD directly onto my hard drive. I never transmit it from my hard drive because strange things can happen to the files. Anyways, you can completely load a safe stable Freelancer using the original boxed version without a CD as long as you had the CD and copied the files. I never ever download a vanilla game off the internet that has been stolen. At the very lea…