MASSIVE SECURITY HAZARD in Spore!
EntropyGuardian:
I can still burn CD/r and DVD/r's. I'll keep you updated as to when the evil ROOTKIT COMPUTER VIRUS doesn't allow me to anymore. I'm going to install Mass Effect right now then uninstall it and continue to do so until it doesn't let me anymore. I'll let you know when that happens as well. I'll also let you know when the evil BACKDOOR TROJAN doesn't allow me to back up my harddrive onto my backup HDDs.
Don't hold your breath.
witch:
Quote from: EntropyGuardian on 2008 September 10, 11:52:43
I can still burn CD/r and DVD/r's. I'll keep you updated as to when the evil ROOTKIT COMPUTER VIRUS doesn't allow me to anymore. I'm going to install Mass Effect right now then uninstall it and continue to do so until it doesn't let me anymore. I'll let you know when that happens as well. I'll also let you know when the evil BACKDOOR TROJAN doesn't allow me to back up my harddrive onto my backup HDDs.
Don't hold your breath.
Hur. One born every minute.
Kyna:
Quote from: EntropyGuardian on 2008 September 10, 11:52:43
I can still burn CD/r and DVD/r's.
Lucky you. I've heard too many stories, including in real life, of people who had drives stop working completely after installing something that came with SecuROM (including people with non-shitty computers purchased fairly recently). They can't all be coincidence or a faulty drive or be the case that the drive's time was somehow up.
My son is sometimes called upon by various family members and his friends to fix their computer issues, and the first thing he looks for when he's fixing a computer with a bad CD/DVD drive is SecuROM - and he always finds it.
My daughter installed BV from the disc she purchased legally. The game refused to run while the disc was in her drive, it kept telling her she needed to insert the disc. Up until that point we'd always bought two copies of every EP in the Sims line - going back to TS1 base game - one for her and one for me. We never got around to purchasing a copy of BV for me, and we chose to pirate FT & AL. She's also pirated Spore due to SecuROM. Why would we pay for a product that doesn't work and that has killed the drives of people we know, when the pirated version works and doesn't kill drives?
jsalemi:
Quote from: Kyna on 2008 September 10, 13:04:50
My daughter installed BV from the disc she purchased legally. The game refused to run while the disc was in her drive, it kept telling her she needed to insert the disc.
That's exactly what happened to me, and why I first got a no-cd.exe. Took a bit to get SecurROM off my system, but I learned my lesson. In my case, it was a 2-year old mid-line Dell machine.
Zazazu:
Quote from: EntropyGuardian on 2008 September 10, 04:39:55
Seriously, it isn't a big deal. If Spore's copy protection fucked up your computer it was a shitty computer to start with.
Fucking trolls.
Many here would probably get wet thinking about my Addison. I love him, yes I do. He is far from shitty. Yet SecuROM deemed my antivirus and firewall OMG EVIL and disabled them, plus disabled my ability to get updates. You, sir, are part of the problem. Did you even pay for your rig, or did Mommy and Daddy buy it for you? I've put over $2k in mine, and no one is going to kill it just because they want to bundle a DRM program that is ineffective at doing what it was meant for and only too effective at screwing with things it has no business bothering with.
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