How do you protect your right to piracy?
Nimrod:
Quote from: morriganrant on 2009 June 15, 08:21:41
Or, you can hop on IRC and get your pirate cat fix that way. All this nonsense about newsgroups.
Also, Securom screwed with my anti-virus and firewall.
You just had to mention IRC didn't you. I...refuse...to allow myself...well let me just add that IRC is nothing but the original P2P. Trace anyone?
Also, can someone produce unbiased, hard data materials about SucuROM and whether it is an actual rootkit, cause it's beginning to sound like one. All I find are reports which are too biased one way or the other. And, again, I've had no issues with it, except once, several years ago with dTools, before they went all commercial. But other versions since then, and now, dTools Lite 4.30.4.0027 offer no hiccups. I know this because the dreaded SucuROM is running it's little processes as I type, have an image mounted and have physical TS2AL disk in drive (which I haven't played in days but it works fine) and the downloaded retail of TS3 is running. No problems anywhere, comodo is listing no suspicious connections and avast! pro reports system green with no rootkit activities. Alas, I'm beginning to get paranoid about it though.
morriganrant:
Quote from: Nimrod on 2009 June 15, 18:12:24
Quote from: morriganrant on 2009 June 15, 08:21:41
Or, you can hop on IRC and get your pirate cat fix that way. All this nonsense about newsgroups.
Also, Securom screwed with my anti-virus and firewall.
You just had to mention IRC didn't you. I...refuse...to allow myself...well let me just add that IRC is nothing but the original P2P. Trace anyone?
Also, can someone produce unbiased, hard data materials about SucuROM and whether it is an actual rootkit, cause it's beginning to sound like one. All I find are reports which are too biased one way or the other. And, again, I've had no issues with it, except once, several years ago with dTools, before they went all commercial. But other versions since then, and now, dTools Lite 4.30.4.0027 offer no hiccups. I know this because the dreaded SucuROM is running it's little processes as I type, have an image mounted and have physical TS2AL disk in drive (which I haven't played in days but it works fine) and the downloaded retail of TS3 is running. No problems anywhere, comodo is listing no suspicious connections and avast! pro reports system green with no rootkit activities. Alas, I'm beginning to get paranoid about it though.
I know IRC is the original P2P. I was paranoid about COX and the torrents for Sims 3, I got it through IRC instead, grabbed a few movies and videos while I was there. If the industry starts cracking down on torrent sites then the pirates will just go back to IRC and News Groups. The scene isn't suffering because of torrenting, it's just become easier for even the average user, and is so much simpler. The IRC channels I've peeked into are still going strong. I have no idea about your newsgroups, maybe it's just that newsgroups aren't as popular anymore.
Securom gives itself access to the kernel of your OS. Ring 0. That way it can give itself permission to shut down or control programs that it shouldn't be able to. What benign copy protection does that? For me, it kept shutting my firewall down, I have my firewall set to only allow a handful of things out. Sims 2 was not among them. My anti-virus couldn't update, at all. It wouldn't allow it to. I couldn't even get it open to run. I removed Securom, all issues regarding that were gone. Several friends of mine online also suffered dvd drive loss. Couldn't burn anything, couldn't save family pictures to a disc, it soon stopped reading discs at all. These are people that I trust to not be retarded and just hop on the blame game, some were unable to open certain music player programs that they had and didn't put two and two together until several others were complaining of the same. There are completely legal reasons why you would have a program like Nero on your pc, but Securom says "no" and your game will not even run. What kind of benign copy protection dictates what software you can have on your pc? You would let some software tell you what you can and can not do on your own pc? It just assumes that you are a criminal and anything that even remotely looks like you can copy the game is seen as a threat, including some of Sony's own cd drives. Securom hides it's own files from you, why should it need to? Why should it need to lock it's own registry keys down so that you can't delete them, especially when the games are just going to reinstall it every time you run them? Just google Securom Issues and see how many people are complaining of them.
I'm the worst person to be giving this little talk though. My mind does not run in enough of a straight line and I can't seem to jot things down neatly. Visit reclaimyourgame.com, use google, listen to peoples' experiences, and form your own opinion.
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