| Fuzzmosis said: Well, this is interesting. But here's a reminder: Rootkits. Please don't let it be screwing too much with hardware to the point of breaking. Also, the stealing community, while not likely downloading too many 30 gig Blue Ray movies yet, just loves another challenge. Way to waste money in developing another security measure to give those who like breaking security measure's joy. |
I prefer the term "pirates", but anyhow...
This is the thing: Back in the NES days, the pirates had literally reduced cartridges to nothing more than the value of the ROM inside. You could literally trade a pirated Super Mario 3 for, say, Gradius and the pirates would pay you money simply because Super Mario 3 had more ROM.
Fast forward two generations to the PS. In the US, where piracy back then was not that big an issue, in Asia Sony actually came out with special "black surface" CDs that were not only completely incompatible with the US version, it took a lot of reengineering from the pirates to actually read and burn the content from these discs. The process took around six months, but it was also eventually cracked.
DVD with CSS? Some Norwegian teenager (If I recall correctly) cracked it with De-CSS.
When the Xbox launched, it was eventually cracked by another Chinese hacker/pirate, who later on went to work for Microsoft, specifically to show (educate?) them how he went about circumventing all the security measures.
Windows XP with WGA? Vista? Chalk two up for the pirates.
Wii? DS? Copy protection for these two are a joke.
PSP? Despite numerous firmware updates, it still runs bootleg, and of course, pirated games.
No matter what kind of copy protection mechanism used, someone eventually gets around to cracking it. It's only a temporary setback, and I don't see how this will change with Blu-ray.
HD-DVD has already been cracked and out in the wild.
Avast ye land lubbers!
