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Rockin Robbins · 06-15-07, 07:22 AM

Imagine my surprise after running SH3 for a year with GWX mods installed, when SH4 after an uneventful install process hautily informed me that "A required security module cannot be activated. This program cannot be executed (5024)." Turned out that the Nazis at UBI and Sony (SecuROM) decided that my Microsoft supplied Process Explorer program (a Windows task manager replacement/augmentation) which has absolutely no application in illegally copying DVD's, would not be permitted on my machine! Well, it would be but SH4 would not run until I eliminated it. Nope. That's the end. My computer is my property, not Sony or UBI's. This is not an incompatibility issue, it is a stupidity issue where they have decided I cannot lawfully use my computer as I wish. I am sorry. I am the customer, and therefore am king. By the authority duly accorded me as king I hereby sentence UBI and Sony to death by starvation. I will not buy Sony or UBI products forever until they approach me and admit that they were wrong, have had a change of heart and will pay me back for all the products I have been bilked for. I urge all, especially those running UBI and Sony products without issues, to follow suit and refuse to buy these products. What is to keep them from deciding that installation of their games will without your permission hack your machine, secretly install cloaked malicious software that terminates your ability to burn CD's and DVD's? Oops, they have already done that with Sony's infamous rootkit DRM on their music CD's. Some companies do not deserve to be a part of a free marketplace. These two are the top of that heap. If you care about your freedom to lawfully use your computer and govern its functions you need to join me and boycott UBI and Sony. This is war. The Customer always wins wars. SH3 was protected enough and didn't cross the line. Open all torpedo tubes. Fire one through four!

06-15-07, 07:22 AM	#7
Rockin Robbins Navy Seal Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: DeLand, FL Posts: 8,900 Downloads: 135 Uploads: 52	No strolls to be made around the Pacific Imagine my surprise after running SH3 for a year with GWX mods installed, when SH4 after an uneventful install process hautily informed me that "A required security module cannot be activated. This program cannot be executed (5024)." Turned out that the Nazis at UBI and Sony (SecuROM) decided that my Microsoft supplied Process Explorer program (a Windows task manager replacement/augmentation) which has absolutely no application in illegally copying DVD's, would not be permitted on my machine! Well, it would be but SH4 would not run until I eliminated it. Nope. That's the end. My computer is my property, not Sony or UBI's. This is not an incompatibility issue, it is a stupidity issue where they have decided I cannot lawfully use my computer as I wish. I am sorry. I am the customer, and therefore am king. By the authority duly accorded me as king I hereby sentence UBI and Sony to death by starvation. I will not buy Sony or UBI products forever until they approach me and admit that they were wrong, have had a change of heart and will pay me back for all the products I have been bilked for. I urge all, especially those running UBI and Sony products without issues, to follow suit and refuse to buy these products. What is to keep them from deciding that installation of their games will without your permission hack your machine, secretly install cloaked malicious software that terminates your ability to burn CD's and DVD's? Oops, they have already done that with Sony's infamous rootkit DRM on their music CD's. Some companies do not deserve to be a part of a free marketplace. These two are the top of that heap. If you care about your freedom to lawfully use your computer and govern its functions you need to join me and boycott UBI and Sony. This is war. The Customer always wins wars. SH3 was protected enough and didn't cross the line. Open all torpedo tubes. Fire one through four!