First post I have made. While reading through the articles here I noticed that Securom seemed to be a big issue with folks well... good news.

            http://compsimgames.about.com/b/2009/03/27/no-securom-in-the-sims-3.htm

What do you think?

Edit^By the way info is a bit old and may have been posted somewhere, however I didn't see it in any of the threads I read 
Also Here is the Official post:
    http://thesims3.ea.com/view/pages/newsItem.jsp?item=-608201177