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Red Alert 2 highlights the perils of this approach - it's very easy to trigger on a legitimate install (I had it happen even on a clean XP install with the game
by stordoff 9y ago
Red Alert 2 highlights the perils of this approach - it's very easy to trigger on a legitimate install (I had it happen even on a clean XP install with the game installed directly from CD), and it just makes the game appear broken.
- nickpsecurity 9y agoThe reputation and sales risks of false positives are what concerned me. I'd probably not do it for that reason. I think Windows XP Activation was the first time I saw anti-piracy features go really, really bad for all kinds of paying customers.