What is Securom, and are Mac users cursed with it?

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aqua-sheep:
I don't know much about it besides that people are freaking out about it. Educate please?

Mi-chii:
Neh, not on macs, but the same question is posted just a couple of threads under this ;) it's a lousy program that messes up computers, thats all I know.

jamesabrown1:
LOL, you do have a way with words, Michelle. Love it. Milkiemybaby, Securom is a so-called copyright protection piece of - um - software that is designed to protect artists and authors from losing income due to infringement. Now, having said that heavy-handed crap, the problem arises from it's own short-comings that plague all software - older versions of some programs such as NERO (and also many others) are not in Securom's tables as being OK, so it thinks you have pirating software and prevents the game from running. If you can start your game, you don't have a problem. I've heard there are fixes for this if you do have a problem, but I'm not sure where to find them. I've seen it referenced on this site so you may be able to find the threads that have links to the fixes.

MaryH:
SecuRom is a "Digital Rights Management" program that is intended to keep the Sims 2 from being hacked, pirated or copied from one disk to another. It is a very bad program, and depending on the version, can destroy your computer.
Numerous games have it, and it has caused no end of grief for many people.
If you want more information about this, you can check out my links. So far, we have not heard anything about it on Mac's-it mostly affects Windows-based PC's and their operating systems.
If anyone has any information about it affecting Mac's, we would be very interested in hearing about it.

Mi-chii:
MaryH a program like that is no use on a Mac, since the gaming community on Macs is such a low, low percentage of the total gamers. I think on the official EA poll under 10% answered they were on a mac. But imagine how many that play the sims that never are on the official site. Most of those are pc-users.

And as I have stated earlier, Aspyr wouldn't be bothered to convert it on their own.

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