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I've always been on the information that "old" SecuROM versions (prior to v7 looks like) were just technologies designed to prevent 1:1 CD copies and were just built into the executable so that it looks for the original disc. No drivers, nothing installed, nothing fancy. Some people had issues with it but its use was widespread and tolerable.
The "new" SecuROM (v7) is the one that installs drivers and does the activation bit and so forth. Not sure if it's adding this on top of the CD check of the previous ones but the activation bit is not disc-based per se (which is why it's on Steam titles) and just made by the same company that has "ROM" in its name due to being a CD/DVD-ROM based technology originally.
So is it true that, with the exception of BioShock, Mass Effect and some others that the "old" SecuROM did not install a driver (i.e., it did something different than StarForce)?
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