AtomicPurple

If it's good, I have no reason to bring it up.

This describes my relationship with Dell perfectly. I never buy anything from Dell, and I always tell other people to avoid them. The best thing I can say about most of their products is "at least it's not HP", and the few decent things they sell tend to be massively overpriced.
Despite that, I have a ton of Dell products that I've either saved from the trash or have been given second hand over the years, and my experiences with many of them have been just fine, maybe even bordering on pleasant in some cases. The monitor I'm looking at right now is a Dell, and it's pretty good.
On the other hand, I've spent afternoons ripping my hair out trying to adapt power supplies for their stupid proprietary motherboards, or figuring out how to compile a fan controller driver for Linux, because their laptop fans won't fucking spin until a proprietary driver is loaded in the OS.
Guess which Dell products I tell people about when they ask me what computer to buy? It's sure not the ones that are decent, but otherwise unremarkable.

While I'm not familiar with that game specifically, it sounds like your hitting some sort of DRM issue where the retail game is stuck running in demo mode. My first bit of advice would be to check gamecopyworld to see if there's a crack and install it if there is. There may also be a cracked version on archive.org.
If that doesn't work, then it's likely the game is using some deprecated Windows feature, or doing something in a hacky or unintended way that's been patched out in newer releases. In that case, running in compatibility mode might fix it, but the chances are slim. A VM, like @wolfshadowheart suggested, would have a much higher chance of success.

If all of the above fails, the last hail Mary you can try before tracking down an era appropriate computer, is running the game in Linux under WINE. Ironically, Linux has better compatibility with a lot of old PC games then Windows these days, but it takes a bit of fiddling to get working.

Edit: Another resource to check is the PC Gaming Wiki. They have dedicated pages for most PC games, with a list of common issues and detailed instructions for fixing them.

It might be because I'm high right now, but I hurt my brain trying to follow that.

Gamer moment

It wouldn't hurt, but I'm not aware of ISPs ever going after people for using Soulseek. If you're sharing a lot of files publicly it may be an issue, but it's not like a torrent swarm where someone can see all the connected peers and report them.

Honestly, you're probably better off just re-downloading everything at this point. iTunes sound quality is not great by modern standards, and if your files are old enough to be DRM protected, then the quality is even worse. Anything you can get on iTunes is almost certainly going to be available on Soulseek, likely at a higher bitrate, and with no DRM to boot.

I don't think this is entirely accurate, as sites like Facebook and YouTube have had large mod teams on their payroll for years and still have safe harbor protections for user created content.
What I could see happening in this case, is safe harbor protections no longer applying to accounts with mod privileges, possibly even those who aren't being paid. If Reddit started paying mods, it could be reasonably argued that mod status constitutes an endorsement / publication by Reddit inc for anything a mod account posts. It would also give anyone working as a volunteer mod cause to sue for unpaid wages.

If you have an extremely high end PC, it's possible to play it at an almost stable 60 FPS

I like it, but it's not as good as the original Soul Reaver or Defiance.
The biggest issue this game has is the save system. In the first game where you could save pretty much anywhere and just had to navigate back to the last area you were in after loading. In Soul Reaver 2 you can only save at preset points which can be few and far between. There are sections of the game that take multiple hours to complete on a first playthrough, where you don't have access to a save point and quitting means losing your progress.
The world design has also been downgraded somewhat IMO. The environments look much nicer and there's a wider variety of them, but the world as a whole is much less interconnected. The first game was a pseudo metroidvania, where completing an area would unlock shortcuts and everything linked back to a central hub. Soul Reaver 2 is much more linear, and the parts where you do have to backtrack are more tedious as a result.

That would have been the original Soul Reaver. Soul Reaver 2 was a PS2 exclusive

I think the implication is that no competent legal council would sign off on the messages sent by Reddit admin, therefore Reddit's legal department must have been sacked. As for the rest of it, I can't say.

This is why I try to involve my 5 year old god daughter in whatever tech project I'm working on whenever she's over. I also have a bunch of edutainment games running on my Windows 98 PC that she plays. She knows how to use a keyboard and mouse, which puts her well ahead of her peers from what I understand.