RejZoR's little secrets

It somehow started with BioShock. But i said ok, let it be, since i'm a hardcore fan of System Shock 2 and Deus Ex franchise and to be honest i wanted to encourage developers to develop FPS games into that direction (there really isn't many FPS games that are more advanced than "shoot them all" style).
I've also found out a way how to backup BioShock activation data so i could reinstall it bilion times on the same PC without activating it again. A point where i basically forgot that i'm limited by activation. You can find this tool under my DOWNLOADS section (SecuROM DRM Backup tool).
It works 100% with BioShock, but since Spore is using exactly the same protection it should work just the same with it.

It appears that EA is trying to punish those who actually pay for their games. Anyone remember good old days of Need for Speed series where simple CD check was enough? Or simple CD check and serial key verification for Tiberian Sun or Red Alert 2. It's not annoying and keeps those home pirates from copying the game too easily.
But here is a catch. They (EA) feel like they are going to prevent piracy with such protection schemes.
They know so much about piracy effect on their income and how their sales suffer because of piracy, but they obviously have no freakin clue how this affects honest customers. First of all, by buying such game i feel i'm treated like a criminal by default. And whatever you say, they'll always blame it on piracy itself. Wake up for crying out loud. Warez copies of Spore hit the torrent sites even before i got my original copy of Spore from online shop. Doesn't this tell anything to them? It does to me. Copy protection mechanisms are TOTALLY USELESS! And in the end, only honest customers get punished by them. Do you see a single warez user worrying about how many times he/she could activate the game? Of course not, because they don't have to. They don't have to pay anything and they don't even have to worry about protection. On the other hand, i do worry if i'm gonna use up all 3 activations before i even finish my game. Or what will happen 5 years later.
Do you think Spore will work after 5 years? Will EA actually care about us and provide a patch that will remove this stupid protection before they shut down activation servers? Will this game work on future Windows versions (we all know what happened with SafeDisc/SecuROM CD checks when we moved from Win98 to WinXP)?
If not, will EA provide patches for that? Why the hell do we have to worry about all this?
We are the ones who bought the game for christ sake! Shouldn't pirates be the ones asking themself such questions?!!?!?!

Bottom line, pirates get their stuff before games hit the retail, proving protection schemes are useless and only annoy honest users. They should really fall back to simple CD/DVD checks and invest the money that usually goes for protection licensing to something useful. Like developing games with new, innovative content and stop producing same crap over and over again.
If games are actually good, people will easily give away their hard earned money. And thats a fact.
Thats how i do it, thats how my fiends do it and it worked pretty well so far. Sounds like that one liner from Iron Man (great movie btw ).

When i heard that Red Alert 3 will be using exactly the same protection scheme, i decided not to buy it just because of that. And i'm not going to download warez version either.
And i think ALL gamers should do the same.
A global mass boycott. If we can "resist" from buying just one such game, we can make a huge difference.
Project like C&C RA3 without any profit returned from the sales will force them to think a bit.
But then again, they will just blame piracy for it, like countless times before.

BOYCOTT SUCH PROTECTION SHEMES FOR BRIGHTER PC GAMING FUTURE!

PS: That image above is the actual photo of my original 49 euro Spore game in case anyone tries to question my honesty...