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Sims 2 Blocked by CD Copying Software

Posted by Zonk on from the sims-or-cds dept.

bairy writes "EA says The Sims 2 will refuse to run if you have Nero, CloneCD or Roxio's EasyCD installed on the same PC. Although they link to a patch to bypass this, a lot of people are upset by this."

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  1. Ironic by DeadBugs · · Score: 5, Funny

    I heard that people that have Doom3 and Unreal Tournament 2004 installed are refusing to install Sims 2. (no matter how much their girlfriend complains)

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    1. Re:Ironic by Phexro · · Score: 2, Funny

      That's probably prohibited by the EULA.

      Either that, or it's contingent on you giving "certain rights" back to the publisher.

  2. Future anti-infringement measures: by base3 · · Score: 5, Funny
    The Sims 3 will refuse to run if any of the following are true:
    • Suprnova is bookarked in IE
    • .NFO is associated with any text editor
    • A debugger is installed
    • An IRC client is installed
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  3. Re:That's BS and you know it by Curtman · · Score: 2, Funny

    I can't wait to see how Transgaming takes care of this, or if they will be unable to make the thing run in Linux. Will it refuse to run if the loopback driver is present? Or will there be another game title that runs better in Linux than it does in its native Windows environment. :)

  4. Re:What really gets me is this... by Niles_Stonne · · Score: 2, Funny



    How are they going to verify they no longer have his address? Send him a letter?

    (j/k)

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