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HA now thats more like it.have a read. their going to get sued because of the DRM that they use in there recent games
http://uk.gamespot.com/news/6198136....dlines;title;1
HA now thats more like it.
We don't know if it's been sucessful yet, should be interesting to set some kind of precident
Is there a tool out there that scans your PC for crap like this?
I'm sorry, but all I can say to that is "that's" and "they're" and "their".Originally Posted by j.o.s.h.1408
http://uk.gamespot.com/news/6198136....dlines;title;1
HA now thats more like it.
To err is human. To really foul things up ... you need a computer.
They're.
The DRM nonsense is entirely crazy, what are EA trying to prove with it, it only pisses off the people actually buying their games whilst pirates (more power to them!) get an actually superior product. EA's dogmatic approach to this comes across like George Bush telling insurgents to 'bring it on' in Iraq, and seeking to win hearts and minds by kicking in doors in the middle of the night and sticking sacks over heads. As a communist I actually support piracy, seeing it as the relations of production (intellectual property rights etc) being outstripped by the means of production (file sharing, torrent sites, high speed broadband etc).
This however doesn't explain to me what EA hope to achieve with their approach of seriously upsetting those customers who actually buy their games, it is simply awful business sense.
"The less you eat, drink and buy books; the less you go to the theatre, the dance hall, the public house; the less you think, love, theorise, sing, paint, fence, etc., the more you save – the greater becomes your treasure which neither moths nor rust will devour – your capital. The less you are, the less you express your own life, the more you have, the greater is your alienated life, the greater is the store of your estranged being." Karl Marx
Well this is going to be interesting to follow, but it'll take a while to resolve itself whichever way it goes. The publicity will probably have more impact than the actual legal action too.
Just a little something that bugs me - do game cracks these days actually remove securom or are they just bypassing it as an afterthought? If the latter is the case then the pirate product isn't superior, as the DRM is still installed...
i'm not certain whether the component is no longer installed or simply bypassed, though even if it is just bypassed the pirate copy is superior because it obviously has no restrictions on the number of installations. Whether it's actually removed fulled or bypassed is of little real difference, afterall what matters is that it renders it moot.
"The less you eat, drink and buy books; the less you go to the theatre, the dance hall, the public house; the less you think, love, theorise, sing, paint, fence, etc., the more you save – the greater becomes your treasure which neither moths nor rust will devour – your capital. The less you are, the less you express your own life, the more you have, the greater is your alienated life, the greater is the store of your estranged being." Karl Marx
Well maybe, but the point is that while it no longer has purpose, it is still there, which is part of the legal arguement:
So this leads into the territory of wondering what this software does in its spare time - it's completely hidden from users so you can't easily track it down, and it will remain present on a lot of computers where it has either lost or never had a purpose...
Yes but the legal status of the DRM software has absolutely no bearing on the actual inconvenience to the consumer or the superiority of pirate copies, if it's found to be legal does it all of a sudden mutate to not be detrimental to the consumer and vice versa?
"The less you eat, drink and buy books; the less you go to the theatre, the dance hall, the public house; the less you think, love, theorise, sing, paint, fence, etc., the more you save – the greater becomes your treasure which neither moths nor rust will devour – your capital. The less you are, the less you express your own life, the more you have, the greater is your alienated life, the greater is the store of your estranged being." Karl Marx
oh and another thing I was forced to download a pirate copy of FIFA 08 as the DVD I recieved wouldn't work properly, not to mention the fact FIFA 08 is a joke and EA need their balls rolled for releasing crappy ps2 ports to the PC and talking nonsense about the AI and graphics being so demanding that only the new generation consoles can cope with it.
"The less you eat, drink and buy books; the less you go to the theatre, the dance hall, the public house; the less you think, love, theorise, sing, paint, fence, etc., the more you save – the greater becomes your treasure which neither moths nor rust will devour – your capital. The less you are, the less you express your own life, the more you have, the greater is your alienated life, the greater is the store of your estranged being." Karl Marx
Having just installed a couple of games with secuROM i was thinking just the same thing.
*sigh*
Another reason to be console orientated now.
Because the DRM is built-in/hidden from the start?
Console DRM isn't going to stop working due to an OS change
Console DRM isn't going to let you put the disk in a number of consoles and tell you to call EA
Console DRM isn't going to hide software in the background and potentially interfere with the running of your system
Console DRM doesn't have the risk of the activation servers going offline
I'm looking forward to TPM on PCs
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