[DABhand]

Originally Posted by vharshyde

Forgive my laughter.

Now, as for the CD copy protection types, well, they arent really winning. The whole bit about warez is that they pften provide a 95% gameplay ability, meaning that some bug prevents a certain level of the game from working properly in the no-cd/dvd patch. This does not go for all games, naturally, but it does go for a goodly portion of them. Game manufacturers NEED people to pirate games, as few are going to spend 50 bucks cash on something they havent even seen a commercial for.

Besides, give it a week or so. Someone will make a patch, or another program to knock out the protection system. You forget. There might be a few different protection systems, but there's millions, dare I say a couple billion people on the net who're more than happy to put something together. Just like they always have. Some of these guys have been around for around 20 years on the net, providing cracked copy protection, CD recognition, and otherwise. Even back when games required you to look on page x, line x of your manual and type in word x, these guys would go into the game code, and knock that out.

Never underestimate the power of the internet. What a company spends a few years developing, the bio-cybermass that is the net can destroy in a matter of days.

What you forget is, it was easier way back then, but now its more sophisticated, hell some "crackers" are getting younger each year and they dont have the experience like the old time ones once had. So protections will eventually win.