is TAGES copy protection bad?

[Neebs]

I'm thinking about buying (Anno) 1701 (A.D.), which I've found has TAGES protection. Is this bad like Starforce or is it just there and unannoying? Not sure if it goes here, I guess its software, thanks.

 

[The General]

All copy protection is bad ...

 

[Neebs]

Well, is it 'malicious?'

 

[Neebs]

bump

 

[The General]

It's all malicious, they try to keep you from copying what is yours.

 

[zmatt]

lol. as much as that makes me laugh general does have a point no matter how off topic it is. copy protection tells me one thing. wen i spend money to buy software, or music, or movies, i dont own it. i lease it from the corporations. thats just not right.

anyways back to your question, if you mean will it act like spyware like Sony's rootkit, or crash your computer. i doubt it. and if you really don't want it some hacker site probably has a program out there that will kill it.

 

[yosa]

Tags as I understand, sets duplicate sectors on the cd, exploiting the the way a drive tracks, it doesn't stealthly install unwanted software.