On Mon, 13 Oct 2003, Jerrold Leichter wrote:
> different forms. It's been broken repeatedly. The one advantage they have
> this time around is that CD readers - and, even more, DVD readers; there is
> mention of applying the same trick to DVD's - is, compared to the floppy
> readers of yesteryea
| I've not read the said article just yet, but from that direct quote "as
| the copy degrades..." I can already see the trouble with this scheme:
| their copy protection already fails them. They allow copies to be made
| and rely on the fact that the CDR or whatever media, will eventually
| degrad
Yawn... This is no different than any of the copy protection schemes
employed in the 1980's on then popular home computers such as the
commodore 64.
Hindsight is 20/20 and recalls, all of these were broken within weeks if
not months. "Nibbler" copiers and other programs were quickly built tha
Companies are using a new software protection system, called Fade, to
protect their intellectual property from software thieves. Fade is being
introduced by Macrovision, which specializes in digital rights management,
and the British games developer Codemasters. What the program does is make
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