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 Posted: Sat, 24th May 2008 17:39 Post subject: [Guru3D] End of game piracy |
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Posted by Steven Hone on May 25, 2008 - 12:20 AM
| Quote: | Speaking at yesterday's Wedbush Morgan Securities annual Management Access Conference, the Atari founder suggested that game piracy will soon be a thing of the past thanks to a new chip.
"There is a stealth encryption chip called a TPM that is going on the motherboards of most of the computers that are coming out now," he pointed out.
"What that says is that in the games business we will be able to encrypt with an absolutely verifiable private key in the encryption world - which is uncrackable by people on the internet and by giving away passwords - which will allow for a huge market to develop in some of the areas where piracy has been a real problem."
Bushnell thinks that piracy of movies and music, however, is probably unstoppable because "if you can watch it and you can hear it, you can copy it."
"Games are a different thing, because games are so integrated with the code. The TPM will, in fact, absolutely stop piracy of gameplay.
"As soon as the installed base of the TPM hardware chip gets large enough, we will start to see revenues coming from Asia and India at a time when before it didn't make sense." |
http://www.guru3d.com/news/the-end-of-game-piracy/
Either way its still can be hacked/cracked/modded, but the more effort people have to put in, the more it costs, the more warranties have to be voided (so the more barriers they put), the less people will think it's worth it.
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CaptainCox
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| Posted: Sat, 24th May 2008 17:43 Post subject: |
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| Posted: Sat, 24th May 2008 19:54 Post subject: |
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TPM chips are already available, all business notebooks for example have one. Intel is also planning to integrate the TPM chip on the CPU die.
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chiv
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| Posted: Sun, 25th May 2008 15:10 Post subject: |
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i like when people say that something will 'absolutely' happen... they always...sorry... 'usually' ( ) end up looking like complete twats in the end.
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| Posted: Sun, 25th May 2008 16:25 Post subject: |
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| chiv wrote: | | i like when people say that something will 'absolutely' happen... they always...sorry... 'usually' () end up looking like complete twats in the end. |
 well, i don't think anyone can argue that.... i've been on the scene for quite a long time and i heard things like "i'm sure this will do that" so many times i can't even remember. so far, i don't know if someone was right about what they said (as in related to piracy)
and like others people on Nforce said, many people also buy whatever they use as pirated before. |
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| Posted: Sun, 25th May 2008 17:59 Post subject: |
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| Posted: Mon, 26th May 2008 03:02 Post subject: |
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Cohen
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| Posted: Tue, 27th May 2008 11:10 Post subject: |
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| Posted: Tue, 27th May 2008 19:31 Post subject: |
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If 90% of the game's that come out for the PC weren't complete shit, I suspect they wouldn't have as much of a concern about piracy.
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