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 Send to email | A History of Copy Protection [Piracy] in Piracy Culture Game piracy Retrospective Sierra |  By Maggie Greene
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There's a nice look back on various forms of copy protection and games. If you make it, they will pirate it - and it's an entertaining look back at some of the ways companies have tried to outsmart the piraters, sometimes somewhat successfully and sometimes not at all. But is there ever going to be an end in sight?: With bandwidth expanding and more and more games publishers exploring digital distribution, there's little doubt that we're entering a new phase in the history of copy protection and those who would defeat it. What's more, the demand for games as a chosen form of entertainment has never been higher. All this considered, it's impossible to believe that the cat-and-mouse game of piracy and copy protection will not reach new levels of intensity, with new technologies deployed on each side, and that some of them will surely create new hurdles for even those who simply wish to purchase and play the newest games. Ah, for the heady days of the code wheel.
I'm always entertained to see what new forms of copy protection crop up in weird places, but when watching surreptitious deals going on in Taipei or even seeing the amount of odd stuff one can find on the internet, it does seem like something of a losing battle, no? At least the old school manuals and inbox extras required to complete a game were creative, if nothing else. A History of Copy Protection [Next Generation via PlayNoEvil]
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| A History of Copy Protection [Piracy] | | There's a nice look back on various forms of copy protection and games. If you make it, they will pirate it - and it's an entertaining look back at some of the ways companies have tried to outsmart the piraters, sometimes somewhat successfully and sometimes not at all. But is there ever going [..] Read complete article | | Published 14-Jun-2008 by Maggie Greene in Piracy Culture Game piracy Retrospective Sierra
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| Moto Racer 2 removed from GOG due to copy protection |  If you downloaded Moto Racer 2 from GOG, you might be wondering how a racing game ever attracted an audience with such slow motorcycles in it. As it turns out, it's not just that you don't know how to operate a virtual motorcycle -- your bike is cripp [..] Read complete article | | Published 21-Jan-2011 by JC Fletcher in copy-protectiondelphine-softwareelectronic-artsgog.commoto-racer-2pc
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| THQ executive impressed by 3DS piracy protection | |
In a recent interview with CVG, Ian Curran, THQ's executive VP of global publishing, touted his favorite new feature the 3DS will bring to the portable market. No, not its titular three-dimensional display tech. No, not all of t [..] Read complete article | | Published 11-Jul-2010 by Griffin McElroy in 3dsdsian-currannintendopiracythq
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| DSi Includes New Anti-Piracy Protection? [Rumor] | | The DSi doesn't just include some hardware upgrades and the ability to download games directly to the system, it might also include more robust anti-piracy software as well. Reports of some DS games, perhaps bootlegged copies of these games, not working on th [..] Read complete article | | Published 15-Apr-2009 by Brian Crecente in Rumor Ds DSI Nintendo Original Piracy Top
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| Sprint launches Protection App for Total Equipment Protection customers |  U.S. wireless provider Sprint has announced a new mobile application available to subscribers of its Total Equipment Protection (TEP) program, titled Protection App. Protection App — available to Android and BlackBerry users — will allow customers who have lost their smartphone to locate the device using a web portal, remotely lock the device, erase address book contacts, and manage co [..] Read complete article | | Published 28-Feb-2011 by Andrew Munchbach in
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