Monday, August 27th, 2007 (
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There's been buzz that the new game, Bioshock, comes installed with a rootkit.
It turns out that it's rootkit free… sort of.
The point here is that people were worried that there's inappropriate software secretly installed with the game, and that much is true, it's just DRM, not an actual rootkit.
As Ars Technica puts it:

Systems like SecuROM attempt to defeat common modes of piracy, but are indeed loathsome to gamers, as they quite often cause problems for legitimate users who have paid full fare for their games. They also make it difficult for gamers to move game data to a hard drive for easier play and quicker access.
Sure, they are anti-consumer and they are annoying. But for now, SecuROM isn't a rootkit.

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