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New SecuROM Ties Protection to Physical Structure
bernardos70 writes "I read a brief article describing how the new version of secuROM, which is already present in newer games, employs a new encryption method which 'tie[s] itself specifically to the physical structure and characteristics of each disk'. Apparently companies are even ordering specially designed media to implement this method. I think that all this will do is frustrate the average joe trying to make legit copies, as the various groups online distributing ISO's are sure to find a way to bypass yet this new technology."
Oct 8, 2002 - h4x0r j03 breaks secuROM
Oct 9, 2002 - secuROM announced
I think that they ought to tighten security, so that no one who purchases a game will ever be able to play it. Then you could put a copy of astroids 1000 times on a CD write "Unreal Tournament 2003" on the cover and no one would ever know! And if someone did manage to crack it, you could then tout the flawlessness of your new security measures as it tricked the pirates into making a thousand copies of asteriods!
THIS IS THE FUTURE OF GAMING!
GOD BLESS AMERICA!
SetupWeasel
this was kinda long, so I'm gonna link to the original and quote some choice passages...
there is some more ranting on the subject on the UT2k3 release day
"when I go out and buy your Goddamned game, and you proceed to rob me of my time and clock cycles with copy protection schemes you imagine secure your bottom line, please let me assure you with the utmost gravity that you are living in a fantasy world. You might as well be drinking fairy wine out of an acorn cap, discussing the finer points of Gryphon Husbandry with their comely queen. The only people these Goddamn mechanisms of yours screw are paying customers, because people who just want to steal your game have always had very easy time of it. You are credulous in the extreme if you perceive otherwise. Put it out of your mind. I said, put it out of your mind."
"There's a halfway house for retardeds like you right across the street from me, you'd love it. They just circle the block, singing songs and drinking Pepsi. Sometimes, they lay by the tree and drink the Pepsi. I never see anybody drinking anything else over there, maybe you get in trouble. It's either that, or Pepsi sponsors congenital defects."
Buttsex.
Unreal Tournament 2003 was ripped, cracked, and distributed before it made it to most stores. This is the new SecuROM they're touting.
I'm looking to patent this new technology I thought of. The process consists of making music cd's that are scratched to hell, and therefore cannot to listened to, or copied. I'm proposing this idea, because, I know, and hope the RIAA realizes that the only way to have music you can't copy is if you can't hear it. If you can hear it, You can copy it. Damn, those RIAA guys are sooooo dumb...
Anthropic principle: We see the universe the way it is because if it were different we would not be here to see it.
a new encryption method ties itself specifically to the physical structure and characteristics of each disk
This unique system will naturally allow you to damage your CD-RD to match the characteristics of the original perfectly. Once you are waiting for this product, why don't you brute force your ILLEGAL copies to get the same effect.
I felt the same way about WindowsXP.