| From: | Adam Bell |
| Date: | 11 Aug 2000 at 12:40:33 |
| Subject: | Re: Amiga Piracy |
> 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.
> 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.
Hmmm. How would this work I wonder. DVD movies played through a TV
on a proper player can not be recorded to VHS due to it's encoding.
The images gets fuzzed up but the audio remains fine. As an
experiment I tried playing a DVD movie on a mates PC and outputting
to a TV through his Matrox card, then recording to VHS. Again the
DVD would not record. Remarkable!!
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.
Ad.
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