This begs the question: Since when did demos need copy protection?
If you actually read up on what is public knowledge about SecuROM's methods of copy protection you would find that certain chunks of code are encrypted and/or converted into instructions for a proprietary virtual machine to obfuscate them.
Since a demo is often based on code that is very close, if not identical, to the gold-master release version you HAVE to protect it in the same way. Otherwise a disassembly of the demo would reveal exactly what you are trying to hide in the release version, and the nasty pirates would just replace the jumbled sections of code in the release version with the clear versions lifted from the demo.
And yes I am a game developer, and yes I am currently copy protecting a game in preparation for release. So sue me for trying to keep the PC platform alive for gaming.
If you don't like the movie, don't wan't to support whatever shadowy organisation your paranoia is fixed on this week or don't own a DVD player don't buy any version. Otherwise buy the 2-disc set now to get the theatrical version and a small amount of bonus material (including 3 almost identical "making of" featurettes... *yawn*). THEN buy the box set with the extended version when that comes out.
You know you will wan't to compare the two versions to each other later!
Come on... It's not like techies are underpaid!;-)
Might I point out to you that "outlawing" DeCSS is currently a local American decision, while this fancy new Internet thingy is of a more global nature?
You are very welcome to access copies of DeCSS hosted in countries with courts less (though not much) corrupted by the music and movie industry. We'll even make the pages in English! Promise!:-)
That said, DeCSS has very limited usefulness nowadays (as a piece of software, that is). You really should be using something which brute forces the disc key, since the Xing key (on which DeCSS is based) is no longer valid.
Even if that's not the case -- everything has it's high point in time. If we don't move one we will stay in the stone age.
I think it is pretty obvious to anyone who has spent even a modest amount of time in arcades during the last 15 years that pinball machines have definately "moved on".
The fact that they still rely, partly, on something as primitive as gravity and steel balls doesn't necessarily render them obsolete. Anybody disagreeing with that is welcome to let me dispose of their fully functional Silver Surfer machine!:-)
I hope to God I come up with something nVidia sees fit to use in their software. Because I have balls, resources, and a good mind to fuck them to Hell and back. It's long past time for this one-way street to come to an end.
Yeah, thats right. Do unto others as the bastards would have done to you, eh?
How about showing them our way of life and SW development, and see if they don't come around eventually? Do you really think we would have seen, let's say, open sourced SB Live drivers if the community had acted like rabid dogs fighting over snippets of code? Of course not. We share. In good spirit.
When someone trips and finds themselves with their head stuck in an unfortunate bodily orifice we help them get it out and get back on their feet. That is how we got where we are today, and that is how we will get even further in the future.
Don't knock the Celeron. I have a dual Celeron 466 system at home. Remember that under everyone's favourite gaming OS, Tivoli98, my beloved second CPU is reduced to a really expensive room heater. With 128 MB of RAM and a 32 MB TNT2 Ultra this baby rocks!
This was just to say that with the right GFX card you too can join the fun. Your Celeron 433 needn't be half bad, so happy fragging!
Does anybody know when this baby will reach Europe? Oh well... We will probably be able to buy one for Christmas. I can wait. No hurry here. No Sir. Not me.
AAAARGH! ICANTTAKEITANYMOREGIMMEGIMMEGIMME!
OK, I'm alright now. But damn those fascist region codes to Hell!
First off, the thought of Jon Katz kissing me makes me want to vomit.
Oh dear me. Can't have that, now can we?
Too much of everything spills into everything else. The Internet is the ultimate cosmic people soup. Look at Slashdot for instance.
Yes. We have both kinds of people here: Those who whine and those who bitch. How about that?
I say we disembowel Jon Katz for having the nerve to actually post something he thought was interesting! After that we can call his mom and brag. All in favour say "aye"...
This is not redundancy. This is Slashdot at its finest. The flood of emails from troubled kids being passed on will be noticed and a saner, truer story will eventually be told by the media. You don't go home after 5 people have signed your petition because the rest will be redundant, do you?
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This begs the question: Since when did demos need copy protection?
If you actually read up on what is public knowledge about SecuROM's methods of copy protection you would find that certain chunks of code are encrypted and/or converted into instructions for a proprietary virtual machine to obfuscate them.
Since a demo is often based on code that is very close, if not identical, to the gold-master release version you HAVE to protect it in the same way. Otherwise a disassembly of the demo would reveal exactly what you are trying to hide in the release version, and the nasty pirates would just replace the jumbled sections of code in the release version with the clear versions lifted from the demo.
And yes I am a game developer, and yes I am currently copy protecting a game in preparation for release. So sue me for trying to keep the PC platform alive for gaming.
Those fancy chess playing computers are going to take over the world some day, yessirree!
I for one welcome our new chess playing overlords!
Indeed! :-)
If you don't like the movie, don't wan't to support whatever shadowy organisation your paranoia is fixed on this week or don't own a DVD player don't buy any version. Otherwise buy the 2-disc set now to get the theatrical version and a small amount of bonus material (including 3 almost identical "making of" featurettes... *yawn*). THEN buy the box set with the extended version when that comes out.
;-)
You know you will wan't to compare the two versions to each other later!
Come on... It's not like techies are underpaid!
Why not to study Japanese.
On a brighter note, I bet Natalie Portman really will be petrified by then, so odds are that we'll go out with a meaningful comment on Slashdot.
Red and blue are okay, but OLED green is people! It's people I tell you! OLED GREEN IS PEOPLE!
You are very welcome to access copies of DeCSS hosted in countries with courts less (though not much) corrupted by the music and movie industry. We'll even make the pages in English! Promise! :-)
That said, DeCSS has very limited usefulness nowadays (as a piece of software, that is). You really should be using something which brute forces the disc key, since the Xing key (on which DeCSS is based) is no longer valid.
Regards!
Did anyone else notice "Enter Sandman" on the MP3 playlist? :-)
I think it is pretty obvious to anyone who has spent even a modest amount of time in arcades during the last 15 years that pinball machines have definately "moved on".
The fact that they still rely, partly, on something as primitive as gravity and steel balls doesn't necessarily render them obsolete. Anybody disagreeing with that is welcome to let me dispose of their fully functional Silver Surfer machine! :-)
Yeah, thats right. Do unto others as the bastards would have done to you, eh?
How about showing them our way of life and SW development, and see if they don't come around eventually? Do you really think we would have seen, let's say, open sourced SB Live drivers if the community had acted like rabid dogs fighting over snippets of code? Of course not. We share. In good spirit.
When someone trips and finds themselves with their head stuck in an unfortunate bodily orifice we help them get it out and get back on their feet. That is how we got where we are today, and that is how we will get even further in the future.
Regards
This was just to say that with the right GFX card you too can join the fun. Your Celeron 433 needn't be half bad, so happy fragging!
Wanna bet, little Coward?
AAAARGH! ICANTTAKEITANYMOREGIMMEGIMMEGIMME!
OK, I'm alright now. But damn those fascist region codes to Hell!
Oh dear me. Can't have that, now can we?
Too much of everything spills into everything else. The Internet is the ultimate cosmic people soup. Look at Slashdot for instance.
Yes. We have both kinds of people here: Those who whine and those who bitch. How about that?
I say we disembowel Jon Katz for having the nerve to actually post something he thought was interesting! After that we can call his mom and brag. All in favour say "aye"...
This is not redundancy. This is Slashdot at its finest. The flood of emails from troubled kids being passed on will be noticed and a saner, truer story will eventually be told by the media. You don't go home after 5 people have signed your petition because the rest will be redundant, do you?