Would TSR really tamper with their files in order to purposely crash your game?
You will have read by now that, by its own admission, TSR place trojans in their downloads to gain information on the downloader. They refer to this trojan as an innocent sounding ’Watermark’, although there has never been anything innocent about trojans or spyware, and their trojan is as far away from a real watermark as you can get.
Here is a posing question for you, would TSR really code its trojan, so that if anyone would try to remove this intrusive spyware, it would cause the download file to break and actually crash your game, potentially damaging your computer?
BlackGarden has the answer…
Did you know that when TSR files DO crash your game, which they inevitably do, The TSR techs accuse the downloader of downloading the files from the booty?
Not everyone is happy about that.
She is 100% certain that if a TSR file has crashed your game, you must be a pirate. So if one of their badly made mesh files causes your game to combust, you had better hope they haven’t got your paypal details.
And finally she makes a rant aimed to the ‘pirates’, ( Odd how the illegal site refers to the legal site as pirates, TSR sarcasm at its best no less. )
A cowardly rant she seems to think sounds better if they never actually get to see it, that is unless you count her trolling their forums under an different name.
NOTE: ‘Tiff’ is Tdyannd.
A perfect example of a person with no tech (eg how things really work in programs etc) idea, making up anything in order to lead a gullible, and equally ignorant, audience wherever they want. The meshes crash because they are crap and its been a problem with their files from day ONE. Blackgarden is obviously posing as someone with a brain – but not doing a very good job =D
Comment by loverat — February 19, 2009 @ 11:18
Ok, well, That is odd
She goes on and on about the way EA hates Paysites, and will reflect that in TS3’s EULA.. But TSR is very much a paysite; hypocrite much?!
She also has too much of her head in the TSR [brain] washing machine, if she thinks that all files don’t work if they are free, what a craaazy lady!
Comment by Petchy — February 21, 2009 @ 22:45
[...] at EA also grant permission to code these trojans to break users games ( and even damage their computers ) if they do not pay and download them from [...]
Pingback by Andrea’s ‘announcement’ « THE TRUE FACE OF TSR — March 7, 2009 @ 00:28
I think all this was made with the consent of EA, remember that EA hide in their programs the “rootkit type” malicious code called “Securom”.
Comment by JR — March 24, 2009 @ 09:58
Is this true? I mean, I’ve downloaded stuff (mostly TS1 stuff) from their site before… if there really is a trojan, shouldn’t my antivirus (avast) have sensed it by now? I ran my scans every month, and I haven’t had any problems from them.
Comment by Ey — July 26, 2009 @ 15:06
…well, i do believe ALL my TSR downloading will be done from the Booty now and they can take thier ‘watermark’, roll it in sand, and go pound it down a rat hole.
Comment by Psik — May 18, 2010 @ 16:43
@Ey, I think that the “watermark” is relatively new, that it didn’t affect mostly TS1 stuff. And isn’t tampering with things to put viruses into computers illegal? Someone I knew got in huge legal trouble because of an email the person sent with only a slightly suggestive theme to it… So wouldn’t, if you proved there was a virus (which Pescado did in a forum entry… dang, I’ll have to look for it), they’d get into REALLY BIG legal trouble?
Comment by Lindsay — May 29, 2010 @ 08:07
FOUND IT! http://phorum.mustnotbenamed.com/index.php/topic,2505.0.html
Unless someone hacked Pescado’s virus program, or it’s faulty (which I doubt, I have a version of it on this here computer), or Pescado downloaded some fake version of it, here is what lawyers do every day: Create a small blanket of doubt. And there is your doubt.
Comment by Lindsay — May 29, 2010 @ 08:15