Hello Philip, I don't think that GPL will stop such people. One CD costs less then .75 cents and printing CD case also not a problem.
I see there only several ways of solving the problem: 1) you can email some PC magazine, asking them to include your mod on their CD (if they have CD :))...That doesn't stop someone making money from your mod. But at least your mod will be distributed with some number of magazine and no-one will *make* money from it. 2) mod must be brilliant. THen you contact VALVE and...:) But that also doesn't stop pirates from making copies of CD's. Almost all protection system that USA game developers use are primitive...(for example Blue-Shift's sony protection). I CAN RECOMMEND VALVE PEOPLE VERY GOOD PROTECTION SYSTEM. A lot of people of our company (Deep-Shadows) worked on GSC Game World (maybe heard game Cossacks? AMerican Conquest? Codename: Outbreak. Venom) and all the games which were distributed in former USSR countries where equipted with STAR-FORCE (www.star-force.com) protection system. The earliest version of protection was hacked, but next version (released in summer of 2001) was much stronger, and I' haven't seen any pirate copies because it is still not hacked. Now they released third version of Star-Force protection and such brands as Cossacks: Back to war, American Conquest, released month ago, equipted with this system. With Star-Force protection you can't make any CD-R copies of the game.... I compared US(Usa) and UA(Ukrainian) versions of Venom and tried to make CD-copies. US copy (equipted with Virgin's protection) was succesfully hacked, and game recognized CD-R as own CD and UA version haven't recognized CD-R... -- Vyacheslav Xenus Level-designer Deep-Shadows (http://www.deep-shadows.com) _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders
