Is Ubisoft Uplay A Rootkit?

Soldato
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Yesterday installed Far Cry 3 on the PC and now find that another title (indie train sim ZD Simulator) which had a hardware specific activation code has reverted to demo mode. Coincidence, or does this mean Uplay has installed a root kit which makes the other programme think I've changed my hardware?

The ZD guys are being very helpful and sorting me a fresh code but I shall be rather annoyed if Ubisoft are so paranoid installing one of their games borks up the PC.
 
Looking from a quick Google search it appears that it may be a rootkit.

Although it also appears that Ubisoft deny it.
 
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