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From:Alan Buxey
Date:11 Aug 2000 at 14:23:20
Subject:Re: Amiga Piracy

hi,

> 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.

not true. You can now copy GDRom's as ISO's to standard CDR media - then use
a special boot CD to disable the boot-block security :-(

> 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.

similar idea to SafeDisc protection on PC games, once again - cracked :-(

alan

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