How to get rid of SecuRom, NOW
Celestard:
Quote from: MutantBunny on 2007 December 22, 17:27:40
I noticed MaxassSam was over here a few days ago. Probably checking the climate on people's attitudes--see if the Securom debacle is dying down.
I'lll never ever spend another dime on EA products or any software that has securom or starforce or any other crap they come up with stronger than SafeDisc. I'll pirate it and get a noCD.exe if I want it that badly which is what they--those in the gaming industry--deserve for putting that crap on our machines and then ignoring our problems.
I had a friend that said 'why wish a fucking on them? why not wish on them something unpleasant, like an audit?' So: Audit them!
All eyes are going to be on the tech section at that bbs when Free Time comes out with all new programming errors, bugs, glitches, and SecuROM damages. :o
Hegelian:
Quote from: jsalemi on 2007 October 12, 14:28:20
I first started programming in that on an Apple II in the local library when I was killing time waiting for my then-wife to pick me up after work. My first computer was a Franklin Ace 1200, which was Apple II compatible and also had a CPM board in it so I could run Wordstar and SuperCalc. I remember when I bought it that the salesman swore to me that 64k RAM was more than anyone would need for the foreseeable future. :)
Heh--I had one of those too. Didn't need a CP/M board, but I had a Hercules display adapter so I could see italics and such in PieWriter. When I was no longer doing that work, I had to sell it to pay my income taxes (self-employed), but it and my Star Micronics dot-matrix printer remained in service for years afterward, printing product and tracking labels for a company that made cardiac catheters, using absurdly primitive BASIC routines I wrote for printing the labels.
My first programming experience was in a CS course coding Fortran IV on punch cards to run on a Burroughs 6800 (I sucked at it). :P
Quote from: witch on 2007 December 11, 18:59:05
Their machines are probably also riddled with spyware/malware, have a zillion toolbars in IE - because of course they still use that - take 10 minutes to boot and load 15 non-needed services in the system tray. The majority have probably completely failed to notice their machines are running crappily because for them that is the status quo.
Okay, wait. My PC takes several minutes to boot, and I don't have all that stuff—I actually know what I'm doing. But, um, my XP install does date from December 2003. . . . :D
cwykes:
The stupid thing about this whole thing from my perspective is that people who have always thought that no-cd cracks were an illegal, VBT only used by teens and techies are downloading their first ever no-CD crack to avoid Securom. Will they stop with one? Not likely. So putting Securom on the Sims BV in a move against piracy etc etc has been entirely counter productive.
Zazazu:
The no-CD crack use to avoid issues with it really isn't the biggest problem. It's the fact that many of us now can't bring ourselves to support the francise, but still want the game. And we will get it, even if it doesn't involve money changing hands. :-\
Spicey:
Quote from: Zazazu on 2007 December 31, 20:04:53
The no-CD crack use to avoid issues with it really isn't the biggest problem. It's the fact that many of us now can't bring ourselves to support the francise, but still want the game. And we will get it, even if it doesn't involve money changing hands. :-\
's'truth.
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