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BioShock Installs a Rootkit

Posted by kdawson on from the drm-even-in-the-demo dept.

An anonymous reader writes "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?"

6 of 529 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Shame on /. for linking to this by Endymion · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    SecureROM installs a service to let those running without admin privileges run the SecureROM stuff.

    So it's installing a privilege-escalation bug for you? That would nicely remove the benefits of running as a non-root user, but I suppose this is typical for windows junk...

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  2. Gotta love mandatory activation by bogie · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Especially for people who bought the game and then couldn't activate it. I can't wait until a year from now when 2k is out of business and users can no longer play the game they purchased.

    Must everything digital now come with an expiration date?

    Punish your users and they'll go away, or more likely warez it. This is going to be one of those games where most people run the cracked version to simply not have to deal with 2k game's bullshit DRM. Gotta love being stuck between the Securerom people and the Bioshock people both blaming each other while the users are stuck in the middle sans $50. Fu 2kgames.

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  3. Re:raising vs begging the question by Skreems · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    It's a common slang phrase among people who don't know what they're talking about. Someone heard it used in the correct sense, appropriated it for incorrect usage, and it's been downhill ever since.

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  4. Re:pendantic linguistics by sqrt(2) · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    No one is impressed by your pedantry. It's a living language, get used to it.

    (Not even going to post AC, I've got the karma to burn.)

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  5. Re:raising vs begging the question by forsetti · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    The english word "beg" has meant EXACTLY what the sentence says it meant ...

    Oh please question! Please please please I'm begging!!!

    In the story posting, we are not "begging" the question in any sense. We are "raising" or "asking", but we are not begging the question. I don't think we can justify the use of the word "beg" here, unless it was meant to be used in reference to the logical fallacy, and therefore it was used incorrectly.
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  6. Re:raising vs begging the question by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    you may decide to abandon civilisation but you should always just a little respect for those that gave you the words that you are using, the very language that you are murdering. learn to speak and write it properly, or don't bother trying. you twit.