SecuROM blacklists legitimate programs.
Last year 1000s of angry gamers revolted against the starforce DRM, they managed to convince ubisoft to drop the DRM and use a less intrusive type of protection. Unfortunately starforce is not the only DRM guilty of causing problems, SecuROM, a form of copy protection by sony refuses to run games making use of this protection when programs such as process explorer are detected. Process explorer is a legitimate program owned by Microsoft, and it cannot be used for illicit purposes, it is basically a task manager on steroids. All I wanted to do is play some C&C, I start up the game and I am informed that A required security module cannot be activated. This program cannot be executed (5024). Problems like this are inexcusable. I believe the best solution to this problem is to complain to EA, and other companies that use the secuROM copy protection. It worked for starforce, a user revolt can work for secuROM as well. So if you want to make a difference kindly inform EA how you feel about this.
posted by Splitt3r @ 10:57 PM
1 Comments:
I agree completely, and I think that EA should not just listen to our comments, but move away from secuROM. I have tried to get help for a week, and I have had three separate people telling me what to do. They say to generate an analysis log, and send it to them. I do, but they never seem to respond to this. All I get is another guy telling me to do what I already did. I tried logging on to the site again, to finally get some help, only to realize that they had taken the site down for "Maintenance". This is incredible. I bought the program from them, and I fully expect to play it within a week or so, preferably within a few hours, The least that they can do is detour people to another site. My game isn't even a CD, it is a Downloadable copy, from the EA Download Manager. They need to fix this, change what they do, not make us remove helpful legitimate programs from our system. This is a big problem, and EA should fix as soon as possible
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