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The one topic upon which [gamers reach] any consensus at all is that SecuROM copy protection barely deters piracy, and makes life more difficult specifically for paying customers. … It’s the sort of thing that makes a person … pirate games they have themselves purchased by circumventing the check with a cracked exe. This is something I do almost one hundred percent of the time, because I can’t be sure I’m receiving the full value of my hardware if I don’t.

Jerry Holkins (Tycho) on copy protection for PC games. To Electronic Arts: It. Does. Not. Work.