Atari Founder Proclaims the End of Gaming Piracy

OMGZombies writes "Speaking on a conference held yesterday in New York, the Atari founder Nolan Bushnell said that a new stealth encryption chip called TPM will 'absolutely stop piracy of gameplay'. The chip is apparently being embedded on most of the new computer motherboards and is said to be 'uncrackable by people on the internet and by giving away passwords' though it won't stop movie or music piracy, since 'if you can watch it and you can hear it, you can copy it.'"

Comments

Re:I wonder..

[HockeyPuck]

some piracy occurs because the gamers cannot afford the games themselves. So their justification is that if they cannot afford something, then it's better to steal it? Computers are still a luxury item in the home.

I can't afford a Ferrari... so it's justifiable that I steal one.
We're not talking about a necessity here, it's a game. If the developers were ok with piracy or didn't care about making profit off of the games, then they'd give them away for free. I don't recall people standing in lines for the latest freeware games.

How is this any different from the music industry? I can't afford the latest Band X songs, so I should steal them.

Complain all you will about RIAA, EA etc, but if people don't pay for music, games, then people won't go into business building games, going on tour etc. There's plenty of very poor street musicians where I live, and I don't see them driving fancy european cars.

Re:Fire up the soldering irons...

[Digital Vomit]

-1, Offtopic.

Also, buy a dictionary.