| From: | Alan Buxey |
| Date: | 11 Aug 2000 at 14:30:10 |
| Subject: | Re: Amiga Piracy |
hi,
> 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!!
nothing new - the satellite and cable people do the same thing on
pay-per-view channels. they pulse through several sync signals during each
frame - VCR's need that pulse to record to tape, this messes them up.
for about 30 ukp you can buy a box that nulls those syncs and outputs a
clean signal again.
> 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.
these things are difficult to design...and then the duplication plant must
be able to handle it. the only feasible way that I can see for future games
and apps is digital key licences. when you buy the game you have to connect
to the companies web-site. the program creates a key, which it then sends to
the company, the company then release a companion key to unlock the
game/application. The key combination are locked to the machine via file
location on the harddisk....if you move the files, etc etc then you have to
resubmit your original key which would then refresh the companion.
in this way you could get free games from the official website and then buy
the key (purchase the game) to unlock the levels (release it from demo mode)
etc......likewise, online games could have the server att he main company
site and only versions with registered keys could be allowed multi-link play
and upgrades/patches
alan
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