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    few questions regarding kingdoms/ securom

    1st off- what exactly is spyware? this might seem obvious to you lot but i honestly have no idea what it is. what makes it so bad? and..

    2- is there any way to buy and install kingdoms without getting the spyware on? cheers
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    1 - Google.
    2 - Yes, you can buy the game, then install the pirated version. Then you will have an installation without Securom and still have bought the game, and you may have to jump through some hoops to get it to work properly. You cannot install the game from CD without Securom riding stealthily on its back.

    I do this maneuver when they make games horrendously hard to use legally. Relic actually BANNED by email account without telling me why, when I first registered the Company of Heroes expansion, and I got no response at all on my request for customer support, so I thank the crackers who made me able to play the game I paid for. I'm never buying a Relic game again though.

    I certainly have Securom installed from all the other games that it sneaks in on though, and had to update Securom to make Fallout3 work at all.

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    ok but what IS SecuRom and what does it do, how will it affect my comp/games
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    Wikipedia exists for a reason. Use it.

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    wow, i just read up on it and CA must be malicious sadists to put this on kingdoms.

    to majd, and any other people who are curious, i think im right when i say that securom is a spyware program (one that monitors what you do) and ensures that you don't download things, and that instead everything on your pc is legit. not only is this quite unfair as many people download a lot of stuff for their pc's, it's known to screw up and start complaining that an update for a game is "invisible data" (as i saw in an article regarding sims 2) and sometimes even begins to wreck the actual computer itself (i saw an example of it sayin that a harddrive was out of space when it didn't even have any files on it!)
    if you want to read up it on more i have a couple of links here for you:

    http://chrisleiker.net/2007/09/13/what-is-securom/
    http://www.insimenator.net/showthread.php?p=964472

    But back to the actual problem of it, to Foot and all other mods Id like to suggest that there should be a sticky clearly detailing what securom is, that it will be included with kingdoms and what people should do in the event they want to get by it, since im pretty sure you must be getting annoyed with new members constantly asking what it is (guilty) and i personally think it's unfair to assume people know all this themselves. not that youre to blame for it, of course, but some might walk into this with their eyes closed and get a very rude awakening. cheers
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    It's not our job to tell people what side effects they get from software that we don't sell.

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    Have to agree on bovi on this one. Its not our place to inform people about SecuROM, or suggest methods of removing it. As individuals we can not agree with its implementation, but as a team releasing a mod we don't have a position on the matter.

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    If anybody whants to use kingdoms without securom pm me...
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