{"id":1846,"date":"2008-08-27T08:00:20","date_gmt":"2008-08-27T13:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=1846"},"modified":"2008-08-27T06:06:34","modified_gmt":"2008-08-27T11:06:34","slug":"securom-causes-leukemia-and-bad-breath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=1846","title":{"rendered":"SecuROM causes Bad Breath and Leukemia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just yesterday I said that while SecuROM is an insult to customers, it had never <em>personally<\/em> caused me any difficulty.  This morning I got to enjoy its shortcomings first-hand.  With CD in the drive, I click to launch <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telltalegames.com\/samandmax\/\">my game<\/a> and&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><table   class=\"\" cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0' border='0' align='center'><tr><td><img src='https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/images\/securom1.jpg' class='insetimage'   alt='securom1.jpg' title='securom1.jpg'\/><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>Hm.  Laying aside the immorality of forbidding your customers from making <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fair_use\">Fair Use<\/a> backups of stuff they own, I want to point out that the legit disk was, in fact, in the drive.  <\/p>\n<p>I clicked the link in the dialog for help, where I was told the following:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><table   class=\"\" cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0' border='0' align='center'><tr><td><img src='https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/images\/securom2.jpg' class='insetimage'   alt='securom2.jpg' title='securom2.jpg'\/><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>Yes.  Definitely direct the user to go mucking about with the low-level functionality of their fully operational computer.  I can&#8217;t imagine how that could go wrong. Cynic that I am, I suspected that these directions were no more than dangerous busywork, so before messing around with my drives I tried rebooting my computer.  That fixed it.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, the Bad Breath \/ Leukemia thing?  It might be a false positive.  Still, better safe than sorry, right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just yesterday I said that while SecuROM is an insult to customers, it had never personally caused me any difficulty. This morning I got to enjoy its shortcomings first-hand. With CD in the drive, I click to launch my game and&#8230; Hm. Laying aside the immorality of forbidding your customers from making Fair Use backups [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[30,86],"class_list":["post-1846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rants","tag-drm","tag-securom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1846\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}