This is a multi-part message in MIME format. -- [ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ] Nothing will stop people from making copies of software, nothing. However, when if somebody comes to you and asks if they can include your work on/in whatever (like a magazine) then that's ok. I was recently quoted in a magazine without my permission which pissed me off.
Also, you recommend implementation of a protection system, but how does that apply to a downloadable game? I also don't have any faith in any kind of CD or copy-protection, because simply, there is a way around it. >From CCD copies to actually copying the CD byte-for-byte. -Philip > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of > Vyacheslav Djura > Sent: Monday, December 30, 2002 8:17 PM > To: Philip > > 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 > > -- _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders
