Re: Amazon.com users hate "Spore" DRM

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Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 12:45

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"John Lewis" <john.dsl@verizon.net> wrote:
> Anybody
> who does not regularly image backup their system partition, or perform
> a System Restore before installing new drivers or applications
> deserves the consequences.

Err...what? Why on earth would you waste time and space backing up Windows 
or your applications, both of which can be easily reinstalled? Anything that 
traps system calls (as SecuROM does) may or may not work with system resore. 
Just as you can't use system restore to remove most spyware/worms - which, 
let's face it, is essentially what SecuROM is.

~None

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