Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!scea!peter_alau@playstation.sony.com From: Darco Newsgroups: scea.yaroze.freetalk,scee.yaroze.freetalk.english Subject: Re: Does the Final Fantasy 8 anti-mod chip CD work on Yaroze??? Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 10:01:54 -0500 Organization: SCEA News Server Lines: 35 Message-ID: <36C836E2.EDE3714@datasys.net> References: <7a0a6u$714@scea> <36C40EC4.E4082468@datasys.net> <7a187m$o0v10@chuka.playstation.co.uk> <36C488C0.8DF59CF0@datasys.net> <7a26ck$2i82@scea> <36C4ADC7.E594EE7E@datasys.net> <7a2nh2$7op9@chuka.playstation.co.uk> <36C4EAE9.7498D911@datasys.net> Reply-To: darco@bigfoot.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 286.dialup.datasys.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (Win95; U) Xref: chuka.playstation.co.uk scea.yaroze.freetalk:1205 scee.yaroze.freetalk.english:3505 Toby Sargeant wrote: > > By making it harder, you just increase the challenge, and the kudos to the > person who does eventually defeat the protection. The fact is that there are > more people trying to defeat copy protection than there are trying to create > new copy protection schemes. It's not possible to stay all that far ahead. I beg to differ. The difficulty will incrase exponentialy, not linearly. > > New storage media is probably the best bet, but you can guarantee that it > won't take someone too long to do something like reverse engineer a data reader > from the consumer hardware, write the software to a DVD disk, and then modify > the consumer hardware to read dvd instead. And again, although you can make it > hard, it's not possible to make it impossible. > That's so full of it man... There is no way... Yeah, someone might just be devoid of a personal life to actually go on such a crusade and be sucessful, but the modifications to the drive would be so complex that it would not be worth it for anyone else to try. So we have a handfull of idiots wasteing their time trying to burn DVD's into GD's.... It's not gonna work man. There will be no piracy scene on the dreamcast like there is for the PlayStation. Just watch. Sega did their homework. > > Producers are fighting a losing war against consumers, and it seems that > maybe the only way to win is to change the rules. > What do you mean 'change the rules'? 'Darco