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Apart from seeing some blurb on the news < TV > yonks ago about sony useing it on their music discs (...)
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SecuROM and the infamous Sony rootkit isn't the same thing though. Yet SecuROM is hardly an innocent, unproblematic application - some call it a rootkit; for a lot of people the fact that it installs itself without telling you (and happily grants itself administrator-level rights on your computer) and gives itself the right to observe what (even perfectly legitimate) applications you run, and may tell you to shut them down before the protected game will run, and to observe whether you are trying to make a 1:1 copy of a protected disc (I'm pretty sure taking a backup this way is a right granted by law in Norway) is unacceptable.
But while I despise SecuROM and being treated like this (including the horrid activation scheme, if it indeed will be part of the package) as a legitimate customer, it is not a dealbreaker. It is a "think long and hard if you really want this game" kind of thing. So Spore better live up to the hype -- I'm not pre-ordering, I'll wait for reviews and they better be stellar
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