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Bioshock’s DRM a continuation of Sony’s rootkit issue?

Friday, October 26th, 2007

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Back in 2005, Sony came under fire for installing a rootkit whenever a user ripped a Sony BMG CD to his hard drive. A rootkit is a piece of software that hides processes from the user, basically a nasty piece of spyware. Sony’s blunder was eventually exposed Sony stopped their distasteful habit.

The new game, BioShock, has reawakened Sony’s desire to harbor the user’s information. BioShock took the first step to a new age of annoyance in PC gaming. BioShock can only be install 5 times on any computer. This prevents against piracy but will mostly likely cheat the user out of software that he has legally bought.

Now for a trip down memory lane

The company that supplies the DRM for BioShock is called SecuROM which is owned by, you guessed it, Sony! Judging from Sony’s dreadful previous experience with copy protection, one would only hope they would’ve learned. Now gonna happen! Sony has packed a rootkit on every copy on BioShock. Haven’t they figured this out by now?

“Those who are cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it”

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