Re: [Audyssey] protection for games

2011-04-28 Thread Pitermach
list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2011 4:45 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] protection for games In this day and age, I'd go with online authentication similar to how Steam does their protection. No internet connection? No game. It's basically that simple. __ Information

Re: [Audyssey] protection for games

2011-04-28 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Ken, Well, there are a number of methods for adding product security to a game or similar product and it all depends on how fanatical you are about anti-piracy schemes. If you want to do something like GMA does they base the product key off the CPU and other hardware in the physical machine

Re: [Audyssey] protection for games

2011-04-28 Thread The Addictor
:15 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] protection for games while that'd work, ken is also porting this game to portable devices that'll frequently not be with in internet connectivity range. My pm definitely isn't most of the time. - Original Message - From: Dennis Towne s...@xirr.com

Re: [Audyssey] protection for games

2011-04-28 Thread shaun everiss
well there was a piracy thread on the audiogames forum which I posted my thoughts. I have been at both ends of the scale, legal and otherwise. The simple username/key will work. Ok this gets shared round, but its easy for users. The other is to have online or whatever but have insentives not to

Re: [Audyssey] protection for games

2011-04-27 Thread Alfredo_The_Music_maker
Why not use an algorithm that involves hardware-based fingerprints? --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at

Re: [Audyssey] protection for games

2011-04-27 Thread Dennis Towne
In this day and age, I'd go with online authentication similar to how Steam does their protection. No internet connection? No game. It's basically that simple. Dennis Towne On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 8:11 PM, The Addictor kenwdow...@neo.rr.com wrote: I am looking for a way to protect Phrase