Tyranny!

[Caid Ivik]

Womble used our news submit to inform us that the game "Knights of Honor" by Black Sea Studios/Sunflower contains a copy-protection that seems to remove  the file deamon.dll from our harddisks. This file is part of the DAEMON Tools software, an application with which you can emulate certain copy-protections. Futuremore, the game requires a "burning software clean" system. So what does this mean for us? Is it legal to force customers to uninstall software? What will come next?

http://www.cdfreaks.com/news/10603

Well, this is nice. Can't wait until I'll come to a page disabling CTRL-C to prevent download of its text...

[NHJ BV]

This sucks. Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow required me to uninstall CloneCD and Daemon Tools as well >:(

Granted, I just downloaded the latest Alcohol 120%, which the game couldn't detect, but still. I'm surprised that publishers can do this; those programs are completely legal. Imagine the outcries if the next version of Office would require you to remove Firefox from your system; yet this is seemingly allowed.

[ordos45]

Imagine the outcries if the next version of Office would require you to remove Firefox from your system; yet this is seemingly allowed.

Don't give that evil corporation known as Microsoft any ideas... *shudders*

[Dante]

The Sims 2 had a similar problem. It wouldn't run if it detected any CD-copying programs. There are ways around it, and I think a patch was released after the outcry, but still...

[Megashrap]

Is it legal to force customers to uninstall software? What will come next?

http://www.cdfreaks.com/news/10603

Well, this is nice. Can't wait until I'll come to a page disabling CTRL-C to prevent download of its text...

Sad indeed,  I also use Daemon tools but really no more than the fact that I can preserve original cd's by using the virtual drives with this program. I agree though next will be Microsoft somehow doing to programs what Wal-mart is doing to thier competition.