| From: | Gareth Griffiths |
| Date: | 11 Aug 2000 at 09:40:09 |
| Subject: | Re: Amiga Piracy |
> I knew some mates who used to goto John Menzies and get a PC game. Copy
> it amoung themselves, take it back , and give some crap technical reason
> for the game not working which workers at that shop would not understand
> and allow them their money back or exchange the game.
Exactly - and if you were frightened they wouldn't do that, you just took a
knife to the CD, scratch it slightly, and take it back saying the scratch
was there when you bought it, and that it won't work.
Incidentally, I paid £22 for Theme Hospital on the PSX in WHSmith about a
year ago, and took it (still in its shrink wrap) straight away to the "Swop
Shop" that was directly opposite. I asked 'em what they'd give me for it and
they said "£7, it's not in demand." so I told 'em to hop it ;-)
> The next problem that Sony might face is that the PS2 will (eventually)
> have a hard drive which raises fears that games can be downloaded via it's
> internet connection and store pirate games on the HD.
Although, if Sony have any sense, they'll make sure that downloadable games
don't require certain blocks on the CD to be there to boot - because it
won't be on CD. Sure, it wouldn't take long to crack those blocks out of a
CD game so that you can copy it to HDD. What about if they had a device
system, where the CD was, say CD0: and the HD was HD0: (ring any bells?) and
then CD games only read their data off CD0: - and assigns (or their PSX
equiv.) were not possible. That'd stop that. For a while. Probably ;-)
> There does seem to be no solution to Piracy. Unless Amiga have had a
> brainwave. (Gary?)
There's a really effective solution - but it wouldn't really help the Amiga
much - don't release software ;-)
Cheers,
GazChap.
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