| From: | Simon Preston |
| Date: | 11 Aug 2000 at 19:10:43 |
| Subject: | Re: Amiga Piracy |
So Adam Bell, you vish to know about [amigactive] Re: Amiga Piracy? Vell, I will tell you...
>> Dreamcast doesn't seem to have a pirate scene at the moment.
> Mainly because
>> of their GD-ROM drive technology. AFAIK, no-one has the ability to
> copy
>> them. I'm doubting you'll be seeing GD-R in the shops as well.
> I don't know anything about this... tell me more.
GD-ROM is Sega's extension to CD-ROM basically it stores 1GB on each disc.
As you can't buy GD-R drives in the shops it is near impossible to copy.
>> Anyway, how about some digital encoding on each disk? Something
> that makes
>> it difficult (probably not impossible) to copy. When someone tries
> to copy
>> it instead of a data file they just get a load of audio noise or
> fuzz.
> As for your idea, the developers would need a method of copying the
> files themselves, so would need some software to do this. This would
> probably get leaked (like the plans for the PSX Mod-Chip) or some
> clever developer could write their own.
There is no way to beat piracy, only ways to slow it down. :(
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