Safedisc

[Alien Firefox]

heya folks

i heard safedisc is a program

i heard that its a wizard that you use to insert it into dll and exe files

i was wondering if anyone knew where i can get this from.

so that i can play with it.

[caki]

Safedisc is a program that protects exes and dlls from reverse engineering and illegal copying. It can usually be found on certain games. I doubt that the program itself can be found.

[Joe Forster/STA]

You can buy it from Sony (?) for a large amount of money. (Do you want to release copy protected software?!)

[DABhand]

Nahhh no way you will get your hands on the wrapper itself.

Safedisc, Securom etc all do protecting software on-site. I.e. they dont give developers/publishers the software (unless its their own of course).

[caki]

Originally Posted by Joe Forster/STA

You can buy it from Sony (?) for a large amount of money. (Do you want to release copy protected software?!)

Macrovision actually

Nahhh no way you will get your hands on the wrapper itself.

Safedisc, Securom etc all do protecting software on-site. I.e. they dont give developers/publishers the software (unless its their own of course).

I think for Macrovision you login and upload it to a server, and then download the protected exe back onto your machine. At least thats what they do for Activemark, and thats Macrovision...

[DABhand]

Yeah but you dont get the wrapper itself. All done on-site.

Sony does it with Securom, and produces the media for you.

[TippeX]

actually there was one of their sdk's leaked a long time ago, no wrapper, but some other interesting stuff ... and yes as previously mentioned damn near every 'large' protector out there works online..

you upload your exe to their server, they wrap, u get it back

safedisc, securom, starforce all use this method, tages too probably

[Alien Firefox]

thats fucking rude then aint it

i saw the safedisc v1 tools on a torrent site once but it had no seeders.

and i dont think the website idea works somehow folks sounds to easy.

and the copy protection developers are to much of a tight arse to allow free protection.

and i dont nessaserily want to use it to protect files.

but it'd be good to protect my old software if i bothered too.

just though it would be handy to have is all

[DABhand]

If they did give out their wrappers, you would see the following.


1. Crackers easily cracking each new update.

2. People having the wrapper freely from various warez sources.

3. No money for the people who make the protections, you have to remember they have a life and a job to do.

4. Developers lose confidence in the PC market and will focus on Consoles as there would be no "safe" protection to use.


So you can see would be dire if they were to freely give the wrappers away.

Hence why its done on-site.

Why is it rude? For a company to protect their work?

Also the Safedisc tools wouldnt have been the wrapper, but an unwrapper more or less.

[Synaesthesia]

Kinda like the ASProtect and stripperX fuzz...

[TippeX]

Originally Posted by Alien Firefox

thats fucking rude then aint it
and i dont think the website idea works somehow folks sounds to easy.

website is closed to the public (typically ssl'd too)
you need a license (which gives a login) to access it
from there, you upload your files, server protect them
and sends them back to you...

safe, secure, simple

you then make your iso of your game content, put the protected exe/dll/whatever on it, and either snail mail (rare these days), or
upload the iso..

the iso is then 'mastered' (protection signature applied, and disks pressed - amount varies), and distributed to you, or any address you supplied as your distribution centre - sometimes the centres can even be the stores they're sold at...

[Alien Firefox]

yer i figured that

all ya need a a mitnick copykat to crack the site though

cant be that hard

[TippeX]

you need to stop dreaming

[DABhand]

Oh no not Free Kevin again lol

Mitnick was around when security protections was weak as compared to today.

He was lucky if they had 32 bit encryption way back, plus he didnt really do anything majorly bad, he was made a scapegoat to try and scare the new breed of nerds who thought breaking security systems was fun, later being called hackers.

Today he may not be as hot, maybe he could be, but personally I doubt it.

[caki]

If you want to protect your software I suggest you use something other than safedisc...........