This is proven not to work, look a software license managers -- When someone reverse engineers it, and they will, then what? I don't think the 'mental poker' model adapts well to this situation, because the server and client do not have a 50-50 role here. It's a lot easier to have a server cheat than a client. Someone who has a cheating client will get kicked from the server and they lose the multiplayer experience, but the only choice a client that has detected a rogue server has, is to exit the game.
I'll believe it when I see it. This isn't the first time companies have made great promises and then failed to deliver upon them. Don't get me wrong, if they do, it's fantastic, but it'd be much cooler if they'd just deliver it and let that serve as the annoucement.
It's over for the recording industry, and even they know it. This is a last ditch effort to try to stem the changing tide of how business will be done in the future, much more to the benefit of consumers than to middlemen.
One thing I can't understand is how anyone can possibly think this copy protection fisaco is going to help combat piracy at all. Maybe they think that all of the sudden, everyone will switch to a new format which prevents them from doing what they wanted or something along those lines. Even if that were the case, it's only a matter of time before people write utilities to strip the copy protection out of protected material anyway. Copy protection usually relies on keeping a format proprietary or secret, and as everyone knows, that is a piss poor way to protect anything. It'll be reverse engineered before too long.
To me, this is all just a lot of smoke and mirrors made to buy time for corporate people to figure out what to do.
Recording industry, wake up, the times are changing and your profit margins will be slimming soon.
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This is proven not to work, look a software license managers -- When someone reverse engineers it, and they will, then what?
I don't think the 'mental poker' model adapts well to this situation, because the server and client do not have a 50-50 role here. It's a lot easier to have a server cheat than a client. Someone who has a cheating client will get kicked from the server and they lose the multiplayer experience, but the only choice a client that has detected a rogue server has, is to exit the game.
I'll believe it when I see it. This isn't the first time companies have made great promises and then failed to deliver upon them. Don't get me wrong, if they do, it's fantastic, but it'd be much cooler if they'd just deliver it and let that serve as the annoucement.
It's over for the recording industry, and even they know it. This is a last ditch effort to try to stem the changing tide of how business will be done in the future, much more to the benefit of consumers than to middlemen.
One thing I can't understand is how anyone can possibly think this copy protection fisaco is going to help combat piracy at all. Maybe they think that all of the sudden, everyone will switch to a new format which prevents them from doing what they wanted or something along those lines. Even if that were the case, it's only a matter of time before people write utilities to strip the copy protection out of protected material anyway. Copy protection usually relies on keeping a format proprietary or secret, and as everyone knows, that is a piss poor way to protect anything. It'll be reverse engineered before too long.
To me, this is all just a lot of smoke and mirrors made to buy time for corporate people to figure out what to do.
Recording industry, wake up, the times are changing and your profit margins will be slimming soon.