I'm certainly aware of that too... but, lemme give you a trick or two; find out what registry dispatching slots can call for in a series of self-executing fake files pulled off plenty of differently managed folders while ini & other zero zum "transitional" assets loop directly to rootkit codes.

Also... get a degree in low-level languages such as assembly, patchworking your ways into runtime memory addressing.

Don't forget to maintain a system wide boot-tagging detector device which would set an alarm as soon as your firewalls skip their pre-installed port calls fast enough to escape any sort of track records.

Minimally, you should arm yourselves with a fluent C++ set of mnemonics, particular coding functions & procedures, compiler tracing, debug listings.

Clear your temps, empty the bins, wipe out the swap files, re-allocate OS virtual space **in real time**, press re-start. While you're at it, unplug the modem.

Anyone can uninstall or detect anything illicit if that's what they want to do on *THEIR* PC.

Yes, not all DRM is bad. DRM is acceptable if:

1. It does not inconvenience the user
2. It does not inhibit use of the product
3. It does not interfere with other elements of the system
4. It does not intrude upon the user's privacy

It does not invade user's privacy.

A game has nothing to do with what software I run on my system, let alone that it needs to collect that information. Let alone that it needs to upload that information to a game producer.

Get. The. F***. Out.

For you guys with the lists...you know the first one on the list..."It does not inconvenience the user" Well, you really don't need anything after that.  Or else we could go on ad nauseum.

Ah, did not know we were creating a legal document, my bad. 

Also- Isn't RA3 EA?  I played that (A little anyway) and I don't remember any bad DRM, I could be wrong about it being EA though. 

Exactly the reason why I made a seperate point about it. DRM can screw up your entire system, but it can also sneak in there unnoticed, which is the whole intent of game producers, and do whatever it wants, including my example. Hell, I got my first BSOD in Windows 7 because some DRM shyte (TAGES or something) was not designed to run on my system, so instead of doing nothing it crashes your whole system. Google it, this is by their design. Whenever the DRM is not entirely sure your system is doing exactly what they want it crashes your whole system!

Indeed and compagnies like EA are totlay failling to to get the point. I can tell yout hat for having pirate SPORE ym self as retaliation to EAs draconistic regime I had no problems what so ever to make the game work. None of the problems reported for spore were present for me in the pirated version. It worked like a CHARM.

Kaboooom, yo'got'it.

Some DRM verification "processes" prove to you & them that YOU aren't a Pirate.

Indeed I jst grew tired with EA that's all. In fact it's the only game I have deliberate pirated to get back at them. In the pass I was given a pirated version of total annihilation, I bought the game 2 days later. I did downlaod a pirated version of gangters 2, but the game wasn't for sell anywere. I couldn't even find it int he old used game bins. But SPORE I pirate out of spite for EA 4 days before the official release. Just my way fo telling them to grease their corncomb up their exit only track. And that is my full pirate career. I didn't even botehr to pirate the other EA titles since I think they suck period to beging with. SPORe looke dinteresting but after 1 week I grew bored with it. Made me happy I pirated it EVEN more.

So fuck em if they do that. If by what I am saying those retards can't fugure out they turned a once payign customer of their products to a boycutter/occasional pirate of their products by imposing him on horrible DRM then they can pleasure their selves with their corn comb for eternaty. Do you they that more of the thing that made me do what I did will somehow magicaly make me into one of their paying customers again?

What they shoudl do is realise that they are aliniating customers like me who are feed upw ith it. That they should adop a model like Stardocks. Becaus eI will say it I do not own many Stardock games yet. But Ic na garanty you my collection will grow with time. And that it will be 100% legit. I probably own or have owned close to 150 games and SPORE is the only so far I can say I truely 100% Pirated and have ABSOLUTELY ZERO intentions of paying for. And for 1 reason only: DRACONIAN DRM.

in the dim distant days of history,

there was a 'powerful and flexible' computer called the 'crash80' or "TRS-80 model 1" that loaded "software" from cassette, I have one of these,

and a cassette game called 'flight simulator by sublogic' that used a machine language preloader to load the game,

BUT due to a fault in the manufacturing process the cassette would only load 1 in 20 times,

and I did try to get the faulty cassette replaced by the retailer, the distributor AND the manufacturer,

but they ALL said that if it works just once  it is NOT FAULTY, therefore we will NOT replace an item that is not faulty,

so by the ENTIRE supply chain I was forced (so that I could use more reliably a program that I had paid the huge price of $49.95 when the weekly paycheck was $118.00) to write a program to read in the pre-loader and the data it loaded,

and write out to another cassette the same data in the correct timing so that the copy would work as the manufacturer of the program had intended,

but if the manufacturer had used the more normal methods of program loading available at the time I would NOT have had to do this.

this happened back in 1981

harpo

Not play the game? It's not a primary life need people.

If I find a game's DRM unacceptable or just can't get it in my region, I don't get the game. I just go buy a competitor's game instead. Hopefully market forces will eventually sort out the offending parties. (mind you, they'll still blame any sub-par sales on piracy, thats just the way the DDRM crowd rolls)

I see nothing wrong with cracks, I hate swapping DVDs (And it wears them out), as long as you still have original DVD.  I keep meaning to crack my fallout so I dont have to keep putting it in but they keep patching it so I dont bother.