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Free Copy of the Sims 2 Contains SecuROM

Posted by Unknown on from the get-your-free-rootkits dept.

dotarray (1747900) writes By now, everybody should know that if something looks too good to be true, it probably is. Let's apply that to EA, shall we? The publisher is giving away copies of The Sims 2: Ultimate Collection, for free... and not mentioning that it includes the controversial SecuROM anti-piracy software. Nobody likes SecuROM.

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  1. Re:So what? by jawtheshark · · Score: 0, Troll
    Yes, I don't get this. They give a game away for free and instead of saying "Fun! Thank you EA" many people are complaining about the DRM. Yes, there is DRM, but you're running Windows to play it, so that really is the least of your problems. I grabbed it. I don't even have Windows in active use, but should I ever have tons of free spare time and want to play a game, I can now install it on a Games-Dedicated-Windows partition.

    I say "Thank you EA".

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  2. Re:So what? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Slaves liked that daily meal too. people like you who will accept anything as long as it comes with something "free" are not right in the head.

  3. Re:Anybody know? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    - Does SecuROM cause security vulnerabilities on PCs on which it is installed?

    Adding a method to hide processes running on your system may be considered a security vulnerability.

    And yet, ironically, if you do not have local admin rights on a Windows machine, what running processes are you allowed to see?

    I guess when Windows bakes in this same very feature and allows the system to block or hide administrative-level processes by default, it's somehow different.

  4. Re:Anti-piracy by m.alessandrini · · Score: 0, Troll
    Please, stop those mantras "copying is not depriving the other of its copy, etc, etc". We're talking about not paying for something you must, and something that cost a lot of money to produce (movies, videogames). Period. Stallman's phylosophical nuances do not apply.

    Mind you, I'm as "pirate" as average you, but people here costantly trying to *defend* it, I can't tolerate. And I'm a big fan of free software and Stallman's doctrine (a little less of himself), but I see lot of people trying to read it as the bible, and especially trying to extend it to totally unrelated fields.