Author: Vincent Lejeune
Date: 03:48:26 09/22/02
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your message did me think about this old cracking method , where technology meets marker pen :o) : http://digitalmass.boston.com/news/2002/05/20/copy_proof_cds.html On September 21, 2002 at 23:46:16, Russell Reagan wrote: >On September 21, 2002 at 23:04:05, John Merlino wrote: > >>This is a very sticky situation. You DO have a legal right to make a backup >>copy. Conversely, the program publishers have a right to (attempt to) prevent >>piracy, and this is usually done by adding copy protection to the CDs. > >A lot of good the copy protection did. It took me 15 seconds to find it on a >file sharing program. > >The ONLY people your company is hurting are the ones who legitimately purchase >the software and who lack the knowledge needed to bypass the copy protection. No >matter how advanced, complex, and intricate the copy protection is, there's >always some person out there who is talented enough to break it in a relatively >short period of time, and it only takes one person to do that and share it on >some file sharing program, and it's loose. > >That will happen regardless of the copy protection. So the copy protection does >absolutely nothing to prevent that. So what effects of the copy protection are >left if it does nothing to prevent piracy? It means that the good people who buy >the software and try to do a CD copy with their standard CD burning software get >screwed. Lose your CD? Sorry, buy a new one, or you could download it from the >guy who cracked the useless copy protection a day after it was out. > >There are people who just want to see if they can break the copy protection, >others want to "screw the profiteers", and there are even online cracking groups >who compete to see who can crack this kind of stuff the fastest (it's not a >matter of if they can, pretty much whether or not they can do it in a matter of >hours, or if it will take them more than a day). > >This is the same stupid logic that people who say we should take away all of the >guns use. The bad guys don't get their guns from Walmart, but someone gets shot >by a gang member and then everyone waves their hands in the air and wants to >take away all of the guns. Then the bad guys continue getting their supply of >sub-machine guns on the black market and the situation is worse than it was >originally because no one thought about the effects of the decision. > >>This fight is well over 10 years old, and I don't expect it will ever truly end. > >If "this fight" is chessmaster specific, ok. But this issue is a lot older than >10 years. > >>Anybody remember some games that were put on floppies that had actual physical >>deformities (bad sectors, or even pinpoint holes!) built into the floppies so >>they could not be copied? > >Too young, but I read about it in books. Unfortunately (or maybe fortunately?) >that didn't work, just like the CM9000 CD protection didn't work. > >Russell
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