29th August 2007, 7:10 PM
*doesn't get the point*
So's apparently Bioshock is a virus. That's what AVG keeps telling me anyway.
Looking into it, it appears that Bioshock installs a background service into XP, like permanently (well I can remove it). It's part of the copyright protection. Also, it installs two corrupt registry keys into the registry that can't normally be removed (except with some special custom made apps). Great... I got the game because after playing the demo a few times I was impressed enough by it, the game. Now I'm thinking I should have just gone with the 360 version after all. My antivirus actually yelled at the demo too, meaning it was put in the freakin' DEMO, the thing that's SUPPOSED to be shared with everyone you know, the thing that doesn't NEED copyright protection, THAT ONE!
Look, I understand that pirates are sort of ruining things for the rest of us, but whatever anti piracy measures you may employee, 2K, don't screw around with my computer! I run a clean ship and this fellow is going overboard the second it misbehaves! I have ensigns scrubbing the bulkheads of the entire thing right now because of your mess! You can tell them why they get two days less shoreleave next week!
The ol' registry key requirements? No problem with that, I'm used to it. Special corrupted parts of subchannel data on the CD/DVD? Classic technique used since the PS1, and though it may cause me some trouble making a legitimate backup, I tend to take good care of my disks and it doesn't really affect me a bit. That odd requirement of registering the game online? Annoying, and the two install limit is utter nonsense (I've already had to reinstall it twice, glad they upped the limit to 5 but I'm approaching that limit pretty soon too), but even that doesn't compare to this.
Look, just limit your copyright protection schemes to the program itself and the media it comes on. Don't actually punish me for running process explorer (seriously, I use that program all the time, and apparently the program refuses to start if I ran it recently). This is terrible public relations.
Let's face it, the pirates are going to figure a way around this. I mean some hackers hacked the PSP's <a href="http://www.noobz.eu/joomla/news/pandoras-battery.html">BATTERY</a>, the frickin' battery. This won't stop them.
The most these guys can realistically hope for is preventing casual users from making copies, and special corrupt data track disks have done, and still do, that job sufficiently. Sure hackers get around that, but they are all going to get around this too. I would only worry about it when casual users, meaning some really popular copying program that takes up a massive market share, is getting around that old copyright protection.
So's apparently Bioshock is a virus. That's what AVG keeps telling me anyway.
Looking into it, it appears that Bioshock installs a background service into XP, like permanently (well I can remove it). It's part of the copyright protection. Also, it installs two corrupt registry keys into the registry that can't normally be removed (except with some special custom made apps). Great... I got the game because after playing the demo a few times I was impressed enough by it, the game. Now I'm thinking I should have just gone with the 360 version after all. My antivirus actually yelled at the demo too, meaning it was put in the freakin' DEMO, the thing that's SUPPOSED to be shared with everyone you know, the thing that doesn't NEED copyright protection, THAT ONE!
Look, I understand that pirates are sort of ruining things for the rest of us, but whatever anti piracy measures you may employee, 2K, don't screw around with my computer! I run a clean ship and this fellow is going overboard the second it misbehaves! I have ensigns scrubbing the bulkheads of the entire thing right now because of your mess! You can tell them why they get two days less shoreleave next week!
The ol' registry key requirements? No problem with that, I'm used to it. Special corrupted parts of subchannel data on the CD/DVD? Classic technique used since the PS1, and though it may cause me some trouble making a legitimate backup, I tend to take good care of my disks and it doesn't really affect me a bit. That odd requirement of registering the game online? Annoying, and the two install limit is utter nonsense (I've already had to reinstall it twice, glad they upped the limit to 5 but I'm approaching that limit pretty soon too), but even that doesn't compare to this.
Look, just limit your copyright protection schemes to the program itself and the media it comes on. Don't actually punish me for running process explorer (seriously, I use that program all the time, and apparently the program refuses to start if I ran it recently). This is terrible public relations.
Let's face it, the pirates are going to figure a way around this. I mean some hackers hacked the PSP's <a href="http://www.noobz.eu/joomla/news/pandoras-battery.html">BATTERY</a>, the frickin' battery. This won't stop them.
The most these guys can realistically hope for is preventing casual users from making copies, and special corrupt data track disks have done, and still do, that job sufficiently. Sure hackers get around that, but they are all going to get around this too. I would only worry about it when casual users, meaning some really popular copying program that takes up a massive market share, is getting around that old copyright protection.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)