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#2215677 - 05/20/07 04:50 PM Re: So now it starts again...the patch reactivation dance...sigh [Re: Razorback]
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Well I bought the Atari download because it doesn't have SecURom....

I just got a SecURom message and my game wouldn't start! I just know this DRM crap is gonna eventually force me to the dark side. Seems SecURom didn't like me running SysInternals Process Explorer for craps sake! Who the %$*& are they to spy on me??? What are they trying to hide????

Brilliant marketing there gents. Make it so hard for a legit user to use the software that they are forced to become a brigand.

I went thru this crap with IL246 and now ArmA.

I am not buying another piece of software with Crappy Protection! ever again.
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#2219565 - 05/25/07 12:08 AM Re: So now it starts again...the patch reactivation dance...sigh [Re: RSColonel_131st]
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Originally Posted By: RSColonel_131st
I've been playing 1.05 from day one (bought it a few weeks back) without CD. The FADE trigger system did not stop the usual suspects from eventually releasing a working no-CD exe.



Thank god. Copy protection does nothing but annoy the LEGITIMATE software purchasers.

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#2219570 - 05/25/07 12:20 AM Re: So now it starts again...the patch reactivation dance...sigh [Re: Operator]
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How come you and I understand that Operator...and the publishers don't?
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“These are bullets, so the people who have those now, they’re going to shoot them, so if you ban them, the number of these high-capacity magazines is going to decrease over time because the bullets will have been shot and there won’t be any more available,”neaner
Rep. Diana DeGette, D-Colo She gets major funding from Drug companies and their lobbyists. If truck drivers need drug tests, how come she doesn't??


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#2220174 - 05/25/07 04:27 PM Re: So now it starts again...the patch reactivation dance...sigh [Re: Nixer]
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To be honest I think it's only a minority who have problems with copy protection. I will work around it so I can keep the disk safely in a drawer and because juggling CDs is much more hassle than getting an appropriate Copy of a file from somewhere in the World of Games. And I'd never seek to install a game I haven't paid for! But I'm not so strongly against the likes of Securom or Starforce or Boonty that I'd boycott a good product which happens to use them - it's hard enough finding publishers who will make games I like in the first place!
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