The new protection system, called Fade, is being introduced by Macrovision, a company in Santa Clara, California, that specialises in digital rights management, and the British games developer Codemasters, based in Leamington Spa. It makes unauthorised copies of games slowly degrade, so that cars no long steer, guns cannot be aimed and footballs fly away into space. But by that time the player has become addicted to the game.
Source: NewScientist.com
Interesting concept, I wonder if they will be able to krack this with a shift key :-P.
Subversive code could kill off software piracy
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Comments (2)
Nothing will ever beat piracy, I seem to remember reading somewhere that this has already been beaten.
Software pirates are people who enjoy cracking software, adding protection just gives them something to crack before the software/game/music (harhar, shift key) no matter what the industry puts out, it's just a matter of time before it's defeated.
Posted by SPeedY_B | October 13, 2003 12:07 PM
Posted on October 13, 2003 12:07
*nod*
Posted by Ken Edwards | October 13, 2003 4:56 PM
Posted on October 13, 2003 16:56