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Posted October 31, 2016
The worst I've heard of is this horrendous story involving Apple Music, which I posted about here a few months ago. Briefly, the writer relates that it deleted 122GB of music files from his hard disk, without asking him. Not just the files downloaded as part of his Apple subscription but also filed he ripped from CDs and music he composed himself. He found that the same thing had happened to other people. At first Apple told him that this was exactly what the software was supposed to do. Later they changed their story, said it was a bug and worked with him to try and sort it out (see the update posts), but the mere possibility of such a 'bug' ever occurring is appalling in itself.
Posted October 31, 2016
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almabrds: The worst one I've seen so far, was the one included in Spore.
That was a version of SecuRom 7
Posted October 31, 2016
Easily Street Fighter 5's root kit. Maybe that was just an anti cheat though.
Posted October 31, 2016
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ydobemos: The worst I've heard of is this horrendous story involving Apple Music, which I posted about here a few months ago. Briefly, the writer relates that it deleted 122GB of music files from his hard disk, without asking him. Not just the files downloaded as part of his Apple subscription but also filed he ripped from CDs and music he composed himself. He found that the same thing had happened to other people. At first Apple told him that this was exactly what the software was supposed to do. Later they changed their story, said it was a bug and worked with him to try and sort it out (see the update posts), but the mere possibility of such a 'bug' ever occurring is appalling in itself.
While I feel some of their outrage is justified they should really be doing proper backups. Never trust a program with your files especially if it's the only copy.

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Madshaker: I really wish witcher 3 ported to xp and vista :(
No you don't. It wouldn't be the same game.

Also are you sure that Witcher 3 doesn't work with Vista 64bit? IIRC, d3d 11 is supported in Vista.

Why you would want to stick with Vista is beyond me. Windows 7 is light years ahead of it.
Post edited October 31, 2016 by DosFreak
Posted October 31, 2016
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Madshaker: I am really sad they didnt let witcher 3 play on older os'es i am still on xp and vista due to win 7 hating most of my older games...

I really wish witcher 3 ported to xp and vista :(
So list those old games that don't run under Windows 7.
I'll bet 99% of them are just a Google search away from working fine.
And that 1% will surely work in a Virtual Machine. Or how about a dual boot?
Posted October 31, 2016
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Madshaker: I really wish witcher 3 ported to xp and vista :(
Although I don't really see the point in playing it in XP due to the 4GB RAM restriction, this probably wouldn't be such a problem if it was an OpenGL game, which it should have been anyway since they announced support for current Linux distros which obviously was canned.
Are you sure, that it doesn't run on Vista 64bit?

Remember, remember!
http://wccftech.com/witcher-3-wild-hunt-coming-steamos-preorders-live/

Imho the scariest DRM ist the still alarmingly high percentage of games not supported on DRM free operating systems.
Steamworks, Origin and UPlay aren't scary anymore, they're just sh**.
Post edited October 31, 2016 by Klumpen0815
Posted October 31, 2016
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Klumpen0815: Imho the scariest DRM ist the still alarmingly high percentage of games not supported on DRM free operating systems.
At least you can find no-CD/DVD cracks for them. Try playing an original XBox (the first one) game on an Xbox One (for example).
Posted November 03, 2016
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DosFreak: While I feel some of their outrage is justified they should really be doing proper backups.
As the article says, he did. But that really isn't the point.
Posted November 08, 2016
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RottenRotz: I did not downvote your post as many here obviously did,but you have a nasty f...ing habbit of defending big ass companies dont you?
I would not say so - at least as I go for bio/organic and fair trade simply for consumer activism, or to force cum encourage supply chains not to exploit workers or nature.

As much as I will not try to pose my bio as a matter of health, I do not exactly think it should accept persecution fantasies as "good activism against DRM" to be popular.

If you needs must vote this down, please do so with pleasure. ;-D
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