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Originally posted by gh0sth@cker
Sony will have the problem sorted in an update at some point and we'll be back to square one.
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But, that will ALWAYS be true. The protection developers continually change their products to make them tough to defeat. Why do you think that Securom has made it up to v4 and Safedisc to v2.8?
I much better solution for making backups would be to provide tools or info to get rid of the protection altogether. Duplicating the copy-protection is not a good solution because the protections still require the CD to play and the copy-protections are incompatible with some drives. I personally have a couple of drives which are on Microsoft's list of drives that don't work with its games that use Safedisc. I have never see such a list published from Macrovision itself, but it is probably even larger.
So, does anyone know of any good tutorials on decrypting and rebuilding copy-protected executables, especially those encrypted with the latest Safedisc and Securom versions? The original CD can already be used to run the executable, but how can loaded debuggers like Softice be hidden from these executables so they can be used to dump and rebuild the executable?