Well it happens too much of the time that the "protection" software protects the software from its legitimate purchasers, while the thieves are downloading unencumbered software for free. This costs the game companies money by discouraging sales. Unfortunately they drank the Kookaid Sony and others have served them.
Warning: this story for illustrative purposes only! Do not attempt any operations postulated in the next paragraph!
Just like the computer user who finds a message on the Internet that says "You have a gigantic hidden virus in the root directory of your hard drive. The name is pagefile.sys. Sometimes it spawns a Trojan called ntldr, with no extension (! That should be a warning sign right there), also hidden in the root directory. You need to follow the following procedure. Click Start and then run. Type "cmd" into the open window and press enter. Now type "attrib ntldr -s -h -r <enter>" Do the same for pagefile.sys. Now type "del pagefile.sys<enter>" and "del ntldr<enter>." Reboot your system and you'll be safe."
Guess what? The virus was YOU! You just rendered your system unbootable. In the same way the game companies have been talked into harming their sales and treating their good customers like dirt. It's not a crime, but perhaps it should be.
Last edited by Rockin Robbins; 11-09-08 at 06:52 PM.
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