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Bioshock PC game AND Demo install rootkits
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Posted by: Ion Silverbolt
What astonishes me is companies think this DRM crap actually works. All it does is piss off the users who will actually pay for the game. And the pirates will keep on pirating. Makes me want to pirate the game out of spite. Or at least be able to install it without that secureROM filth.
"Sony (the owner of SecureROM copy protection) is still up to its old tricks. One would think that they would have learned their lesson after the music CD DRM fiasco, which cost them millions. However, they have now started infesting PC gaming with their invasive DRM. Facts have surfaced that show that the recently released PC game BioShock installs a rootkit, which embeds itself into Explorer, as part of its SecureROM copy-protection scheme. Not only that, but just installing the demo infects your system with the rootkit. This begs the question: Since when did demos need copy protection?"
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