30th October 2008, 5:14 PM
It's not about "fixing" it so much as expanding it.
At any rate, it seems that they are saying the only protection level securom uses is a basic disk check. I'm fine with disk checks, as those have been around since the start. I have only recently adapted to entire games being dumped on the hard disk rather than being read from the disk, so it's not like I'm not used to putting a disk in the drive to play my game. However, that's NOT the only check they do. Securom is running some bizarre check for disk drive emulators, and for the life of me I have no idea why I failed that check. It was annoying is all, but fortunatly it is easily worked around.
I hope others take this as an example. This is a perfectly satisfactory level of copyright protection. That said, it was still hacked on day one. Sad isn't it?
At any rate, it seems that they are saying the only protection level securom uses is a basic disk check. I'm fine with disk checks, as those have been around since the start. I have only recently adapted to entire games being dumped on the hard disk rather than being read from the disk, so it's not like I'm not used to putting a disk in the drive to play my game. However, that's NOT the only check they do. Securom is running some bizarre check for disk drive emulators, and for the life of me I have no idea why I failed that check. It was annoying is all, but fortunatly it is easily worked around.
I hope others take this as an example. This is a perfectly satisfactory level of copyright protection. That said, it was still hacked on day one. Sad isn't it?
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)