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Originally posted by emptyeighty
[B]If everybody had access to the latest unwrappers, Macrovision and Sony would analyse how they work and improve their protections accordingly.
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First, the copy-protection developers already do this. They continually refine their product because they know that any protection which relies on a physical key (like a CD-ROM) can be broken using that key. Second, I doubt that generic unwrappers for the latest protections exist for that very reason. However, the one thing no protection can stop is manual decryption and rebuilding using the original CD because that is what has to happen for the game to run at all.
What I am advocating is that if enough people know how to decrypt and rebuild the EXE's manually, this form of copy-protection will truely no longer be effective because there will be always be a plentiful supply of cracked EXE's for the latest versions of ALL games.
Right now, cracks for all updates to all games do not exist and the ones that do can be difficult to find or can disappear at any time because their distribution source is limited. Look what happened when Gamecopyworld recently removed the cracks to the latest Sierra and Activision games. Some have returned but not all.
The best way to assure a steady and easily obtainable supply of deprotected executables is to have as many people as possible able to create them. And the best way to do that is to teach people how to manually do it themselves.