Countering Piracy aka Publishers Are Morons

[bardicverse]

code.samurai said:

bardicverse said:

 What were these idiots thinking? Software being soft will be malleable to changes and will eventually submit to the will of the collective hacker mind.

Anyone who posts such statements has no right to call anyone else an idiot.
Eventually hackers get caught and lose 10-20 years in prison, fall so far behind the technology that they fall into disuse in the working world

I guess there are still people naive enough to think that piracy is all done in countries that are strict on piracy laws.  I'll let Darwin take care of this.

Its all a matter of how the process is approached. Like not releasing a game in a format that those countries can understand, region locks, etc. Make it difficult enough to work around the anti-piracy measures or at least more expensive to work around them, and the problem fades away to a small minority.

A few people are researching ways to corrupt curcuity via code, sort of like a viral EMP that would fry the circuits on a motherboard. I don't understand the exact process of how it is done, but you would only imagine how much people would want to avoid such a thing frying their console or computer.