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Originally Posted by hyakkii

. Lets give an example if you try to break a zip file of a 12 letter password it could take more then 1 year with a average pc 3.0 ghz 1 gig ram, now take a encryption key that could be huge 20+ chars it can take a very long time or forever if evey file is encrypted differnt.
Some not all starforce games have trigger points (most are online checks) but so far this is only seen in codemasters games.

Please prove me wrong if you can.

depends on the method used to break the zip password (using hashing tables can sygnificantly speed things up).. 20+ chars sure, that'll take long too, all depends on your method, the time taken totally depends on the method/approach, if it took the crackers 4 years per game there'd be no gamecopyworld now would there.. and the games protections are reportedly 'very high industry standard protections' by most articles today, yet they are bypassed.. as for trigger points... codemasters are paranoid and did other things too (remember fade?.. ) so thats a particularly bad example
i would prove you wrong, but im not into pissing contests and it will detract from the thread, i wouldnt say you are totally wrong, just misinformed about some things which you cite as examples