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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.'"
You don't know how TPM works but you feel justified in calling Nolan Bushnell an idiot.
Point out the technical inaccuracy of my post. Go ahead. I'm waiting.
Nolan Bushnell is an idiot and so are you, drama queen.
Yes, TPM will be broken, but at least read up on it before your mad rush for mod points backfires.
I'm posting as AC you tool.
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'
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Actually NWN2 already employs the only time tested, guaranteed to work copy protection scheme. It sucks.
Literalism isn't a form of humor, it's you being irritating.
Pitiful that this got modded insightful.