Is EA's SecuRom/DRM really that bad?

[Buffalobiian]

Well, on a sightly different topic, how is SecuRom's security issues different from the BMG Rootkit?

I'll own up now, I'm in the paranoia band regarding SecuRom since the BMG incident, though it didn't affect me personally.


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Edit: ends up the difference is the access level. SecuRom installs on Ring level 3 while BMG software and StarForce installed at 0 (aka root) access, allowing full rights over the system.

What sucks about researching this topic is sorting out which guys have facts, which guys have opinions, and which guys have brains.

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Edit2: So main issues with SecuRom is that upon uninstall, it leaves registry entries on the system regarding license info that can't be deleted. This implies that it (a) may be having more rights than it should, (b) that malware may find ways to utilize these keys to their keys undeletable?

Most good comments were pre-Mass Effect though.