Very true what t2suggas said, but generally speaking it's a added program that is installed along with your simgame which will make it harder to make illegal copies. So the intention is to stop piracy or at least make it harder. The problem is that to make this added securety some players find it inteferes with their computer or way of playing (for instance playing without internet on the computer etc), while other players will never even notice it's there.
I for one have a game with the securerom on it, and I have never noticed until I looked here and then at the box for the game, so for me it has not intefered with my playing, but I still am against doing it because of many of the same arguments presented in this thread and because I simply don't like the idea of installing secondary software on my computer that I cannot install or uninstall because of another program.
This is a very simplified explaination of course and I too would still recomend doing some research yourself and know that you're likely to run into very biased explainations if you look on forums (and maybe other places too).
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