When the first level protection is activated, the stage background turns blue and black, the song 'Fakery Way' from Sonic Adventure plays and ghosts that can kill the player spawn in the levels The protection could be activated as easily as typing in keywords like 'hack', 'cheat' or 'mod' into a browser whilst the game is running, and in doing so, the browser would close. On December 10-11, after a December the 4th update, a post was made on Reddit about a very sketchy DRM system that had been discovered.
The event has also resulted in the fan game being referred to as 'Sonic Gather up all your information and your computer,' something along those lines. The game has been largely avoided, and not recommended to anyone. The game got a mostly positive reception, but after the discovery of the DRM, the game met with mutual distaste from several other fan game communities.
