http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9685
--- Comment #167 from Stefan Dösinger stefandoesinger@gmx.at 2009-06-11 10:43:52 --- (In reply to comment #166)
The DMCA is a criminalization and abbusive law that only applyes to USA. Most countries do not have such a limitation, and it's unlikely someday will. This being said, if a definitive fix appears, it may be hosted in another country.
The political issues aside, Wine (and its commercial counterparts) are available in the US, used in the US and stored on US servers. While fighting the DMCA is probably a noble goal, Wine is not The Pirate Bay or some other similar website that wants to make political statements with questionable means, Wine is software that also aims at businesses. So any questionable legal things will make Wine unusable for businesses, so we can't do that.
You can't use Virtualbox to run most games that uses Punkbuster, because of the lack of Direct3D acceleration. Yes, you can use Swiftshader, but it's painfully slow. Yes, latest version of Virtualbox supports OpenGL (never tested), maybe some OpenGL games will run.
You can compile wined3d.dll and friends for Windows and use it.