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Atari Founder Proclaims the End of Gaming Piracy

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the until-they-build-a-better-crack dept.

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.'"

3 of 831 comments (clear)

  1. TPM and apple... by PC+and+Sony+Fanboy · · Score: 0, Troll

    TPM isn't going to solve anything.

    Look at apple! Apple uses a TPM chip to prevent osx on non-apple hardware... BUT clearly it didn't work.

    Maybe the atari guys havn't heard of el-jobso and his merchants of 'cool'

  2. Re:With apologies to the original author... by tsm_sf · · Score: 0, Troll

    Actually NWN2 already employs the only time tested, guaranteed to work copy protection scheme. It sucks.

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    Literalism isn't a form of humor, it's you being irritating.
  3. Re:Fire up the soldering irons... by Kral_Blbec · · Score: 0, Troll

    Pitiful that this got modded insightful.