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Originally posted by CirKutz
Well macrovision can see where these little tricks are being made, and trust me, they do check for unwrappers. Then if this is the case they make it more and more difficult for unwrappers to work automatically.
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Macrovision already knows how to unwrap their own stuff so they already know how any unwrapper would work. They don't need to study a public wrapper so withholding a wrapper from the public does nothing to deter Macrovision from constantly revising its protection. If Macrovision wants to see if the latest version of their protection has been broken, all they have to do is see if cracks for games which use it are available. So, if you release a crack to a game, you might as well release the wrapper because either way Macrovision knows that version of their protection has been broken.
The gaming community needs more sharing of cracking techniques NOT less. For example, if it weren't for r!sc's sharing of his Safedisc crack source code, the Safedisc unwrappers like Bool's which derive from it would not exist (or would have at least taken much longer to develop). The copy-protection developers constantly change their protections regardless of what the crackers do because the developers already know how their protections can be broken and realize that with enough time and effort, others will do exactly that.