Posted September 13, 2009
zM: DRM = evil, but let's not take it into extremism over here. Ishar ins't guilty. GOG went ok with this. Ishar i have and can play. If i wanted NSF Undercover well, guess what, i don't have the game. OR i could get it and endure the whole REAL DRM problematic. So no, CP based on some passwords that come with the game manual aren't DRM really...
StingingVelvet: Do you consider SecuROM in it's basic disc check form to be evil DRM, like Fallout 3 for example? ...SecuROM or any other name, if all it does is disk check, in theory i have no problem with that. The whole problem begins when it might start acting on genuine products, saying they aren't,or that it doesn't detect the disk even. So, in this case, the concept isn't that bad or even outlandish (disk on drive per si was/is common somewhat, even if we prefer the commodity of needing none), but a possible problem of buggy software. And in this case, if it stops you short of playing a genuine game, yes it is evil. But if it doesn't happen, all fine. For long as it doen't try to phone home on a internetless pc... again, in this case, i find it subjective.
But i remain on my general opinion up there, many people started calling DRM to anything that moves. That is not accurate and could be misleading.