F'ing Typical

[moz]

so i buy a game and it doesnt run on my pc due to securom protection.

that has taught me a lesson

 

[LordFu]

The whole concept of DRM is false, IMO. You make things hard for your paying customers in order to help your sales? Really? How does that work? It's counter-intuitive at best.

I no longer buy games with SecurRom or similar protection mechanisms, or music and video in DRM'd formats. I guess DVDs are an exception, since I buy them and they are technically encrypted. I vote with my dollars. I don't want to buy a "license" to play a game, listen to a song, or watch a movie. I want to buy the damn thing. I want to be able to put it on any device I want. I want to make a back-up. I want the freedom to use something I bought, however I see fit.

From a consumer's stand-point, I don't think that's too much to ask.

 

[epitaph]

SecuROM isn't the copy protection to bitch about imo as it's fairly gentle compared to Starforce -- now that's a real piece of work.

 

[Fishbong]

The whole concept of DRM is false, IMO.

Copy protection isn´t DRM.

Also i have modchipped my PS2 yesterday. Goodbye, department store, hello video store!

 

[LordFu]

SecureRom still installs a memory resident program to make sure that you're using the product you paid for "correctly". Starforce is more invasive, yes, but I oppose the concept on principle, not on a product by product basis.

FYI, copy protection is a form of Digital Rights Management.

 

[moz]

seems like the no dvd .exe from the web allows me to play my original.

thankgoodness for CD/DVD copy protection

 

[Wite_Noiz]

SecuROM isn't the copy protection to bitch about imo as it's fairly gentle compared to Starforce -- now that's a real piece of work.

I agree.
I bought Two Thrones with Starforce and it's never worked. Apparently the newer versions have moved away from Starforce now - but I'm permenantly put off from the game (I sold it on eBay in the end).

I also bought XIII direct from Ubisoft download site once, and it used the worlds most appalling distribution software called bountyBox (or something).
Got the entire thing, registered it, played for 10 minutes. Next time I come back it tells me I don't have admin priviledges.
Ubisoft said it's not them, bountyBox (or whatever) said they had no record of my purchase because it came through Ubisoft.
Won't be buying anything from Ubisoft download site again...

DRM is just ruining people's opinions of games/vendors... which is a shame (not for DRM, a shame that people sitll think DRM is going to solve anything)

I'm rambling, aren't I?

 

[LordFu]

seems like the no dvd .exe from the web allows me to play my original.

thankgoodness for CD/DVD copy protection

Yeah, it's real effective, LoL! That's the most ironic part, to me. They basically sent you on a quest to find a no cd/dvd crack for a game you bought. By forcing you to know where to find them, they've encouraged you to start pirating.

 

[PSyMastR]

seems like the no dvd .exe from the web allows me to play my original.

thankgoodness for CD/DVD copy protection

Yeah, it's real effective, LoL! That's the most ironic part, to me. They basically sent you on a quest to find a no cd/dvd crack for a game you bought. By forcing you to know where to find them, they've encouraged you to start pirating.

:lol: :lol: :lol:

 

[Vimacs]

well, securom is totaly teethless, just use "securom loader" or "curerom" to hide any emulation software from it, its realy facinateing how they keep annoying legit customers while pirates just dont have to care.

 

[michaeljustman]

I had a similar problem when I bought The Sims 2 (don't laugh). The game would tell me to insert the original CD when I tried to play the game, w/ the original CD.

Some searching on Google, and a little later, I discovered that you couldn't play the game if Slysoft CloneCD was installed on your computer. Yes... installed. CloneCD wasn't even running and The Sims 2 wouldn't play.

Since when, is it alright for EA Games to tell me what software I can have installed on MY computer!

It pissed me off so bad, but I ended up just uninstalling CloneCD when I want to play the game and installing it afterward.

 

[Jarska333]

Well, those things keep the original buyers from copying the game to all of their buddies.

 

[Radek]

I don't play PC games now because of that copyprotection crap. Just to play a game I would have to install something what can be called a rootkit??!

No, just not acceptable for me.

 

[Mosch]

Well, those things keep the original buyers from copying the game to all of their buddies.

I really hope that was sarcasm.

 

[Winterkid]

The Sims 2? They shouldn't have bothered, honestly. *laugh* Unless all his buddies are teen to mid-thirties females.

 

[DemonStar55]

http://defectivebydesign.org/

I personally find DRM extremlly stupid, if I buy something I should be able to do what ever the hell I want with it, and piraters still get around DRM, they aren't stupid