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Reply 20 of 47, by franpa

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buy the "box" version of bioshock and not the steam version.

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Reply 21 of 47, by eL_PuSHeR

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Is this true? isn't Steam Valve's propietary?

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Reply 22 of 47, by ADDiCT

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franpa: been a while since you purchased a game, eh? I bought HL2 "offline" when it came out, and still couldn't play it without inet access. I guess it's the same with Bioshock.

A bit OT: i just played the XBox 360 version, and i'm not rocked so far. Of course, the "Art Deco" style is something new and looks quite cool, but until now, i feel like i'm playing a mixture of Doom 3 and Condemned, with the "shiny" graphics of GoW (;

Reply 23 of 47, by eL_PuSHeR

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OT: I find pretty stupid that you buy a game and you can't play unless you have an internet connection and download god knows what. On the other hand this could prove to be an effective and annoying copy protection.

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Reply 24 of 47, by Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman

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franpa wrote:

buy the "box" version of bioshock and not the steam version.

Is the box version free of such horrendous copy protection?

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Reply 26 of 47, by Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman

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Fuck. 🙁 I guess I'll only buy Bioshock if there's already crack available --I just want to play my original copy without having to copy with such horrendous internet activation scheme.

At least "enhanced audio CD" is easier to crack.... 🙁

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Reply 27 of 47, by franpa

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but the box version would be easier to bypass the protection with.

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Reply 28 of 47, by DosFreak

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Gamecopyworld has the No Intro fix and a mini image of BioShock up so that you can play without the CD drive.

If you don't want to use a mini image then you can image the BioShock DVD with the latest ver of BlindWrite and that will work as well.

I don't keep up with the "scene" so I don't know what the status is of bypassing the activation for the DVD release.

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Reply 29 of 47, by dh4rm4

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franpa wrote:

but the box version would be easier to bypass the protection with.

No, unfortunately it makes no difference. The HL2 experience was similar.

Reply 30 of 47, by v0g0ns

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probably a stupid question, but does the bioshock demo have securom too?

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Reply 32 of 47, by franpa

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its been proven that the "securom" provided with the demo can easily be removed, just look at your services and disable it and now your done 😁

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Reply 33 of 47, by Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman

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franpa wrote:

its been proven that the "securom" provided with the demo can easily be removed, just look at your services and disable it and now your done 😁

After disabling securerom, can you bypass / work your way around the activation or such?

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Reply 34 of 47, by franpa

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no or not to my knowledge. theres a article somewhere that describes it.

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Reply 35 of 47, by Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman

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Wait:

DosFreak wrote:

I looked in HKLM and HKLU but nothing really stood out. A regisitry or installation monitor may tell us more....but I've already tainted my system with the activation so I'm not sure how trustworthy a reinstall on the same windows install would be at capturing the install.

Maybe the Securerom windows service hides it. Maybe you can better find the downloaded activation key (or file) after disabling the Securerom service?

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Reply 36 of 47, by Freddo

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Here is a new article about the protection thingy.

Reply 38 of 47, by v0g0ns

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damn, i really wanted to play this game, but i dont want to "taint" my system with this securom. I've read, however, that antivirus software also "taints" your system too. Is that true?

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Reply 39 of 47, by eL_PuSHeR

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Every program that installs and runs things behind your back "taints your system". Most antivirus do it too.

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