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Finding Cheat Codes For A Living
selan writes: "The Baltimore Sun has an article about the guys from GameShark who spend their time digging up cheat codes. 'For hours on end, hackers here squint over thousands of lines of numeric coding that translate to great feats of accomplishment on a video game.'" Good work, if you can get it.
To all you folks without lives that are whining about how game codes destroy the value of games. Forget that noise. I work for a living and the last thing I want is to come home and become even MORE frustrated because the PS2 is designed for the reflexes of a 12 year old on crack.
I think every game should ship with cheat codes. After a long frustrating day of work, if I'm going to spend $60 on a god-damn game, I want to be able (and as the customer, this is a feature I god-damn demand) to go right in and load up my character with every conceivable weapon and just whoop ass.
It's either that, or bringing my AK-47 to work.
The DMCA covers copy protection. It has NOTHING to do with this. In fact, here's a subsection of DMCA *maintaining* the right to reverse engineer in this way:
`(f) REVERSE ENGINEERING- (1) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (a)(1)(A), a person who has lawfully obtained the right to use a copy of a computer program may circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a particular portion of that program for the sole purpose of identifying and analyzing those elements of the program that are necessary to achieve interoperability of an independently created computer program with other programs, and that have not previously been readily available to the person engaging in the circumvention, to the extent any such acts of identification and analysis do not constitute infringement under this title.
Please, for the love of god, read the text of the DMCA before ever mentioning it again. It's fairly short and to the point.
Text of DMCA
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