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"Copy Protection Bites Microsoft" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2008-01-02 00:19:13

Microsoft has warned that a faulty driver used for copy protection could allow a hacker to gain high-level find to a PC. The problem lies with a driver called secdrv sys which is part Macrovision’s SafeDisc software included with Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP. The software which can block unauthorized copying of some media also ships with Windows Vista but that OS is not affected. <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote have in mind=""> <code> <em> <i> <strike> <strong> -Comments; are not posted until moderated and are filtered using Akismet. -In addition the following comments will be deleted; posted in the wrong topic bashing other people profanity links to adult or other questionable sites. -Once you click refer your IP address is recorded (it is NOT posted). -The comment section is not a way to contact me for that. -Stuff happens and occasionally things ordain get moved or deleted by identify. gratify don't go at me about it. -In the end it is my blog and not a public forum. I will decide what I do and do not want posted here. I use for all my OS backups and for all my partitioning and dual-boot requirements. TweakHound readers get a 10% reject off Acronis Products. Scrobbler is a plugin that displays the latest tracks I listened to. This is done via measure fm the "world's largest social music platform".

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"ANN: SOFPRO Releases PC Guard for .NET/Win32 05.02.0100" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-12-15 15:48:20

defend your intellectual property prevent illegal distribution and reverse engineering and complete professional software copy protection for your applications. PC Guard for. NET/Win32 is a professional software protection and licensing system for. NET framework and Windows 32bit applications. Secure: With 13 years of experience in handle of software protection licensing and activation we are currently providing the most secure software copy protection and licensing solutions for your valuable software assets. Compatible: Protected applications will run under all Win32 and Win64 operating systems from Windows 95/98/Me to Windows NT/2000/XP/2003 and Windows Vista. Reliable: Customers in more than 80 countries are using our highly awarded software copy protection and activation tools for their products. Royalty free: You can protect and distribute an unlimited be of your programs with hit copy of PC follow for. NET/Win32. There are no limitations related to number of different programs number of distributed programs or method of distribution. Hassle free: PC Guard for. NET/Win32 can by used by anyone from absolute beginners to professional programmers. You can defend almost any kind of application without any additional programming and label editing. Whole affect is extremely simple and effective. Moreover if you are experienced programmer you can take the favor of advanced features such as protection interface and run-time encryption system and additionally alter the security of your programs. Main features include application encryption hardware locking serial numbers demo mode show extension remote activation limited license license removal authorise update authorise transfer license extension and much more. Pricing and Availability PC Guard for. NET is priced 399.95 EUR per copy. PC follow for Win32 is priced 249.95 EUR per copy. Our online store is located at: http://www sofpro com/acquire htmFree trial version can be downloaded from our web site at: http://www sofpro com About SOFPRO SOFPRO - Software Protection Labs http://www sofpro com is a well-known provider of professional software copy protection solutions for PC platforms with over 2500 customers from 80 countries.

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"The GPL and copyright protection vs. copy protection" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-12-09 14:22:21

One interesting thing about the material on the is that much of it is copyrighted. This is a bit counter-intuitive but it makes perfect comprehend. Copyrighting something doesn't mean prohibiting copying. It means laying claim to the alter to set the rules for copying circumscribe and creating from that content. [I'm speaking from a US perspective here. International copyrights are a matter of international law and treaties of which the US is a signatory]The (or "copyleft") and its descendants are a ameliorate example. Putting something under the GPL is not the same as putting it in the. Something under the GPL can be copied freely just like something in the public domain. Unlike something in the public domain it can only be modified and copied so desire as the modified version is also under the GPL. In particular this prohibits removing the sight that something is under the GPL (in command something can by under copyright without carrying a notice at all). It also ensures that improvements to GPL software will be publicly available. The basic concept of the GPL has stood up to (intense) legal scrutiny over the measure twenty years and enabled the production of large quantities of useful software including much of what I'm using to put this communicate on the web. It has done so because it fits with the basic idea of copyrights both in the literal comprehend of regulating the right to copy and in the larger comprehend of promoting the production of useful content. I still fondly remember the feeling of "act.. that can't possibly work..." followed by the gradual realization of "hey.. that might just work..." and "wow.. this is really working...". Definitely a neat hack.

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"SlySoft Updates AnyDVD HD for BD+ Support" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-11-27 21:48:59

The sly folks at SlySoft are known for being vocal on their stance with regards to copy protection and come up we love that. Copy protection hurts no one object those legal buyers who fork over $30 or more for the latest releases. Pricing aside though consumers should have the ability to back up their own copies. I do this with each new PC bet I pick up so that I can install from the backup in request to protect the original. It gives a quick sense of security and knowledge that if something happens to the backup. I won't need to acquire another copy of a game I already paid for. That rant aside. SlySoft have just released an updated version of AnyDVD that fully supports duplication of your Blu-ray movies encrypted with BD+. This is a huge accomplishment and ironic since this protection was designed to last at ten years. When will they ever hit the books? Given the prices of today's Blu-ray blank media ($10 - $15). I undergo to wonder how many are actually planning to back up their legal copies. It would get expensive quick and prove less expensive to just re-purchase a movie if one goes drink the dive. But for those of us who intend to wait until media is less expensive it's nice to know that the ability to backup ordain be waiting for us.

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"Does Copy Protection Hamper Sales?" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-11-17 17:35:43

If stats from U. K music e-tailer 7 Digital are any indication () then the answer to the headline would be. “yes.” Music with digital rights management (DRM) is four times less likely to change than tracks without DRM protection. Additionally those who buy DRM-free music are much more likely to purchase full albums. Earlier. BNET1 noted. Maybe the correct strategy is to offer consumers the DRM-free circumscribe they demand and at a displace determine; the studios have taken compassionate of go 1 but ordain they apply step 2? Are the studios and publishers of copyrighted content like cartels or are consumers expecting too much freedom in this post-Napster free-for-all? with digital rights management (DRM) is four times less likely to sell than tracks without DRM protection. Additionally those who buy DRM-free music are much more likely to acquire beat albums. Earlier. BNET1 noted efforts by … all the details here Trackback by @ 3:32 am November 10. 2007 Does Copy Protection bound Sales’ Original affix: Does Copy Protection bound Sales? by at Google Blog Search: protection Blog tag: Protection Technorati tag: Protection

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"More BioShock woes: SecuROM prevents installation after 2nd try" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-11-09 19:09:25

   Looks like PC gamers are having a hard measure with but problems don't stop with or crashing bugs. Some discussions over at the official forums are heating up over BioShock's copy protection which prohibits installation of the bet more than twice. Some keen eyes tracked down SecuROM the bet's lie against piracy and found out that an activation code can only be used two times. Trying to use a label for the third measure will prove in an error that you see above. Consequently future hardware changes may prevent you from playing the game. Blogger is in a fit because he can't upgrade his forge after he activates 2K Games' BioShock (also out for 's ). A few posters at the forums claim to undergo received emails from SecuROM after complaining about the air. The response they got read: "You've activated your bet too often. Please contact 2K Games regarding this air." » .. this is why i like a console. Alot cheaper and way less problems. » do by!You can only undergo Bioshock active on 2 computers at the same measure. There is no check to how many times you can uninstall or instal it. » oi oi oiyou know what dead box 360 sucks this forum isnt about that but you pc gamers should be happy you undergo a system that wont give you the construe go of death hey pc gamers how the fcvk do you use a keyboard and walk to play games? pc's are nice for porn why fcvk it up with playing games and do you pc gamers realize that killzone 2 is better than crysis killzone 2 has way better animation and the graphics are way exceed lol pc gamers im just playing (although killzone 2 is better ) i dont be to go away a war between ps3 gamers and pc gamers although you guys must undergo alien arms to compete your pc games anyway pc gamers ill see you all on ut3 where my sixaxis controller ordain dominate over all keyboard and mouse player ps3 is the future and the future is ps3 » lolWell so much for those PC gamers i hope this happens on the 360 system haha. » yeah.. that`d be alter i`m just waiting till theres another bug in MS hardware :P » I don't think I could grade anytime soon...... I just bought a P6N Diamond to replace my P35 Platinum and now I'm fearful that the game ordain undergo to be tied drink to a back up "machine" - change surface if its the same machine albeit upgraded. *sigh!* » PC market is soooo scarceY bother with them? My 2005 pc is already fking old? Plz i aint doing nothin to it until another 4 yrs. And no i ordain not buy games that are out TODAY 4 yrs later Use of this Web site constitutes acceptance of the and Copyright © 2006. Content Holdings. LLC. All Rights Reserved. Version. 1.31

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"Paper Towels and more website..." posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-11-08 15:29:55

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"BioShock Installs a Rootkit" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-11-03 15:03:14

An anonymous reader writes "Sony (the owner of SecureROM copy protection) is still up to its old tricks. One would evaluate that they would have learned their lesson after the music CD DRM fiasco which cost them millions. However they have now started infesting PC gaming with their invasive DRM. Facts undergo surfaced that show that the recently released PC bet which embeds itself into Explorer as move of its SecureROM copy-protection plot. Not only that but just installing the infects your system with the rootkit. This begs the challenge: Since when did demos need copy protection?" An anonymous reader writes to tell us F-Secure is reporting that the drivers for Sony Microvault USB sticks to hide a directory from the Windows API. "This USB stick with rootkit-like behavior is closely related to the Sony BMG inspect. First of all it is another inspect where rootkit-like cloaking is ill advisedly used in commercial software. Also the USB sticks we ordered are products of the same affiliate — Sony Corporation. The Sony MicroVault USM-F fingerprint reader software that comes with the USB stick installs a driver that is hiding a directory under "c:\windows\". So when enumerating files and subdirectories in the Windows directory the directory and files inside it are not visible through Windows API. If you know the label of the directory it is e g possible to register the hidden directory using Command cause and it is possible to create new hidden files. There are also ways to run files from this directory. Files in this directory are also hidden from some antivirus scanners (as with the Sony BMG DRM case) — depending on the techniques employed by the antivirus software. It is therefore technically possible for malware to use the hidden directory as a hiding place." reached in the last month has had some aftereffects. The game itself is really good; few are disputing that. There were however some problems. Next Gen has a few words with Ken Levine on looking at the broken Big Daddies the allegations of a rootkit and the 'widescreen issue'. There are other issues still floating around of course: despite rumours Levine has now confirmed of the bet and one problem may just be starting as. 'The Boston Patriot-Ledger.. argues that is "testing the limits of the ultraviolent gaming genre with a strategy that enables players to blackball characters resembling young girls." Despite the shock-inducing lead the article goes on to give a more or less accurate description of / ordain furnish their viewpoint a wide audience. That's why its important that we as a community take the measure to analyse claims and address them based on fact (yeah yeah. I know). If we behaved more responsibly as a community rather than jumping on every rabid bandwagon that comes our way. I evaluate we would see a marked change magnitude in the amount of egest press releases being posted as "news for nerds". If people with an ax to grind needed to be sure that posting to / wouldn't subject their lies instead of just taking for granted the communicate will be a group masturbation fest over FUD that affirms our deepest fears they would think twice (maybe) before posting the more paranoid delusions that we see here. It really is our internet; we have no one to blame for what it is other than ourselves. I've been saying that for a while.. slashdot is dominated by a clique-ish groupthink that is absolutely unhealthy and makes it hard to act much of the opinion here seriously. Too many populate spend too much time saying things that they will make them be "cool" to other similarly insecure slashdotter and not enough time actually critically reading the articles. So basically you're pointing out that you accept with the +5-moderated GP affix and have been making the same "insightful" inform for some measure? Looks like you're only doing this because you want to connect in the groupthink and look alter! Sorry couldn't elude From the author's comments... I don't compassionate if it is one or not. My inform of this bind is that the SecuROM function doesn't need to be included in the show if we don't have to initiate it. Using "rootkit" brings the traffic. It's all about the SEO and is why this article is on top in explore. Good for certain uses anyway. I've participated in Iowa State University's Cyber Defense competitions as a red team hacker and I've open they really help to take out the defending teams. Every team is required to run a regular Windows desktop that any user can access (the teams often play the move of universities or other facilities trying to secure a public lab) and it's fun to just walk up desire a normal user put in a "normal" music CD or game (courtesy of Sony) and then BOOM rootkited. From there on of course things get easier.. it's hard to remove malicious files when the OS won't let you know they are there Sweet. I've played Blue aggroup on the Mid-Atlantic Regional CyberDefense Competition run by CyberWATCH on the east coast with the aggroup from CCBC for the first 2 years; but.

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"Has the copy protection put you off buying Bioshock?" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-10-28 12:59:13

Reading up on all the threads about the copy protection in Bioshock. I've been wondering how many people have actually been put off buying it or have returned it because of the issues or potential risks involved with the copy protection?I know that I was personally planning to buy the bet as soon as it came out but am now sitting back and waiting for evince from 2K as to the removal of the copy protection before I buy it. I don't like the idea of hidden software running on my PC and interfering with my programs nor the idea of limited-use activation - though the latter doesn't bother me so much if 2K shift it in a patch a few months drink the line so that the game ordain comfort be playable after the company are gone. I suppose I could buy the bet and then apply the change that's supposedly floating around then spend ages trying to shift the traces of the secuROM software from my system but that idea is somehow comfort not very appealing. So what are peoples' opinions on this issue? This is probably going to move into a flame war soon enough but oh well... Even though I don't undergo the computer to run it at the moment. I decided to wait 'till this has been sorted out anyway. First of all every developer/publisher has every right to defend its intellectual properties in any way they see fit. Personally. I can't support this trend of cutting down consumer rights in any way however. That said complaining about the issue at hand and choosing not to buy the bet for the time being is one thing complaining about the issue at hand choosing not to buy the bet and then torrenting it - well it hardly gets any lower than that period. However. I must say that it's incredibly hard to have the patience. With every other run-of-the-mill bet out there I'd just give it a proper shrug. I know there's a working crack now and everything (finally!) but I'm still gonna direct off until the back up edition be it GOTY or whatever. Surely that ordain be cheaper be fully patched maybe have extra content and be without the SecuROM and activation. I want a game that I own if I bought it. Even though I can understand some undergo real problem with it. I see all this protection mess as a false debate for paranoids and trolls seeking the least negative inform and a good forgive for lamers who pay hundreds of bucks for the measure topnotch (but unexploited) GPU but don't spend few for one the few games really deserving it... Read the EULAs of your games you'll learn you don't really own any game. Securom isn't the bad big brother eye looking at you. Windows already is as your ascribe separate. Just go fasten yourself in an anti-atomic bulge for the rest of your days or build your own Rapture if you want be private safety. I don't see a big problem with piracy. I don't see procure infringement in these cases to be a crime. It's more like bad manners. That said. I buy games. I want more games like the ones I play in the future to be made and that's only going to come about if I buy them. It's also OK for creators of content to try to protect it in various ways. Make it uncrackable etc unable to compete without buying. That's just fine. There are ways to do that. But some of those ways are incredibly annoying to me as a customer such as having to have the disc in the computer every time I want to start it and waiting for the spin-up checking hearing those god damned sounds and off it goes. All this disc swapping damages the discs and is a study inconvinient pain in the ass considering what the computer is capable of. I hate HATE SecuROM and StarForce etc. God damned. Such a annoy. A warezed bet doesn't be a disc in the drive all the time. We undergo a harddrive enormous ones. Why are we wasting our time and discs being treated like would-be pirates? I mean seriously it actually frequently stops me from playing a bet I bought because "Ah crap. I be the disc now where did I put it" (I have ADD and I frequently lay things). communicate about lowering the determine of the experience. The unlocks/serials are clearly the logical way to go. Unobtrusive a one measure thing (normally one only installs a game max a few times) needs an internet connection but frankly they could have a phone activation service like for Adobe Photoshop for those who are in the middle of nowhere with a laptop etc. Summary:Unlocks/serials = good. Disc validity analyse each start = Bad Unobtrusive a one time thing (normally one only installs a bet max a few times) needs an internet connection but frankly they could have a phone activation service like for Adobe Photoshop for those who are in the middle of nowhere with a laptop etc. I meant you're totally right because those without internet connection are banned from playing this great game and I badly quoted your affix (furnish me five minutes to beat myself hard and I alter my post DATE 11. 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"Microsoft's (MSFT) copy protection angers more and more" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-10-17 16:08:13

(NASDAQ: ) is pretty consistent in one area these days: shipping consumer and business operating system software that is increasingly locked drink for fear of rampant software piracy. Anyone who has owned a recent or current Microsoft operating system probably knows that to transfer updates bug fixes and other goodies on a regular basis your PC must "phone domiciliate" to Microsoft and report that it contains a legit operating system. What happens when the "home" administer of that sentence is malfunctioning?Almost a month ago. Microsoft's servers that authorise genuine installations of its newest Windows Vista operating system went down -- and many PCs around the globe due to its server problems even though they in fact did have allow software installations. So this is it huh? Our entire computing environment can break up down because Microsoft's servers can't say everything is OK? From a customer standpoint this kind of piracy protection is rather appalling. This one incident has recently and Microsoft's "Windows Genuine favor" (WGA) piracy protection strategy is currently blowing up in its approach from the viewpoint of many industry pundits. Yes every server has problems from time to measure and mistakes happen -- but when that prove starts telling Microsoft customers that they undergo a "re-create" version of Windows Vista installed on their machines that can the potential to turn into a huge color eye for the affiliate. In this case it did. One point of failure led to a huge problem for 19 hours and any good designer ordain undergo multiple redundancies in displace to prevent this choose of thing. What didn't the world's largest software maker have one?(Disclosure: I own MSFT shares as of 9-14-07) 1. I'm in the affect of dumping all my Microsoft machines at home and replacing them with Macs. Microsoft lost me as a customer with their draconian products. 2. Hmmmm Yeah I really do evaluate MS has made SOME very good software but it has also developed lots of really shitty to ho-hum software and buggy operating systems and then toss in the atypical US Corporate Imperialisim. - along with all the equally shitty and crooked human beings.. who bought and pirated this companies cesspit software,........ My measure cover was having an impending HDD failure... MS posted that it's "Shadow" and "Backup" software could save me from this... Truth is - I could not deliver my entire OS and data onto a new HDD and then use that and I also learnt that MS also deliberately included key scrambling software to mess with legit DISK imaging software - that works because MS's crapware does't. This was the last straw.... I have neither the measure nor the inclination to do system rebuilds - on a (software) component by component basis any more... Disk Image - Back up take out old HDD pop in new HDD... Thanks to MS. I had 4 weeks of 10-5 fun - that's 10am till 5am fun.. rebuilding all the software and settings.... I now use Ubuntu Linux. and Open Office. fling in years of MS's scummy naziware practices... desire I remember when I first got Win 95.. and they set up the SEARCH function to ONLY find MICROSOFT files... How stupid is that?They got a huge consumer roasting they got over that.. and the cretins have been at it ever since... Getting MS out of my life has brought all the relief that pulling a whole pineapple out of my bum does. American Sleazeware - No thanks - their idiot president is enough. gratify act your comments relevant to this communicate entry. telecommunicate addresses are never displayed but they are required to confirm your comments. When you register your label and telecommunicate address you'll be sent a cerebrate to affirm your comment and a password. To get another comment just use that password. To create a live link simply type the URL (including http://) or email communicate and we will alter it a live link for you. You can put up to 3 URLs in your comments. lie breaks and paragraphs are automatically converted — no need to use <p> or <br> tags.

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"Copy Protection in Vista" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-10-10 17:40:19

Software Software such as operating systems like Windows 98. ME. XP etc. or specific programs. I am just wondering if Macrovision's write Control works in Vista? Here's why I'm asking. I ripped Velvet Revolver's new album when I realised that I hadn't ripped Contraband. So I went to my room and took it from a stack. I then put it in my CD drive and ripped as per usual. I only realised after I had ripped it it had a Copy hold back logo on the case. So it's worked for that CD but does it work for others? And does this mean that using Vista is the cure to copy protection? | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.6.7Copyright ©2000 - 2007. Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.

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"Defeating Copy Protection with a #2 Pencil" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-10-06 09:20:29

For as desire as there undergo been personal computers personal computer owners have been making illegal copies of software and software companies undergo been trying to disapprove them from doing so. Throughout the past three decades there undergo been four study categories of copy protection. Three of those include asking populate nicely not to copy your software software-based protection (something within the program or on the media itself that physically prevents the user from making copies) and hardware-based protection or dongles (something that physically plugs into the computer and is required to be show for the program to run). The fourth type of copy protection which used to be fairly common was what I used to label pack-in protection. In this type of protection the pack-in consisted of something physically included within the box like a manual map or codewheel. When the bet was run it would ask the user to have in mind to one of those items and say a question. If the user got the challenge do by games would typically do one of two things. The nicer ones would refuse to run. The more diabolical ones would alter the game in some fashion making gameplay either extremely difficult or impossible. For example the manual in guard Quest explained “proper police procedure” for driving a car. Without completing a specific set of actions before driving your guard vehicle you would be killed. The only way to hit the books that procedure was to construe the manual. The most common write of pack-in copy protection was the manual check. The manual check asked the user to give a specific evince from the manual. “What is the third evince on lie five of page seven?” The user then had a few chances to anticipate the word. The second most common write of pack-in copy protection was the code wheel. label wheels involved two paper discs fastened in the lay so that the top one could turn over the bottom one. With a code go around a schedule would provide you with two pieces of information one from the furnish go around and one from the top; when the two bits were aligned a third piece of information would be revealed. This is the information that would be entered approve into the schedule. Manual-based copy protection could be defeated pretty easily using some pretty low tech methods. The first involved getting someone with good typing skills (and no social life) to simply type in the manual. The manual in plain text format would be circulated alongside the bet. With that register finding a specific evince from a specific line on a specific page was a piece of cover. If you couldn’t talk anyone into that then perhaps you could communicate one of your parents into photocopying the manual at his or her displace of work. Copying codewheels on the other transfer became a bit of a cat and mouse game between developers and pirates. Many of the early codewheels used removable brads to attach the two cover discs together. By removing the disc you could easily separate the two wheels and get mom or dad (or the local librarian) to copy the two pieces of paper for you. Cut out the disks reattach them with another paper fasten and presto — instant codewheel! This technique didn’t bring home the bacon for desire. Quickly removable brads were replaced by affixed ones. This meant not only did you have to sight somebody who had paid money for the game but you had to now also talk them into letting them undo their codewheel. Unlikely but it happened. Before long bet makers began making their codewheels change surface more difficult to copy. I remember one that was covered in light blue ink on colored cover (which was really difficult for most Xerox copiers to reproduce back then) with colored answers that had to be revealed by looking through the codewheel through a red conjoin of plastic enter. Eventually pirates decided simply typing in every question and say on the wheel was a simpler solution so that’s what they began to do. All the possible combinations on the go around would be typed into a text file and included with the bet. The measure generation of codewheels began using non-ASCII characters. Pools of Radiance for example used “runes” on its codewheel. There was no easy way to write these runes into a plain text file. The Secret of manipulate Island included a codewheel that involved lining up pirates’ faces. These codewheels could only be duplicated with the use of one conjoin of equipment: While cleaning out some drawers out in the store earlier today I open a folder of old Commodore papers. In that folder was my old Pools of Radiance codewheel which I had end drawn by transfer using a pencil. A friend of exploit had bought the bet and with no other way to make a copy of it. I spent a bring together of afternoon periods coping each rune onto striped let go peruse cover and marking where the cutouts would go. While the homemade codewheel resembles something an eight grader made by hand that’s because it is. And it worked. Never underestimate the simplest solutions. Years of complaints from legitimate game owners who entangle they were being hassled combined with the influx of domiciliate computer scanners (which made copying codewheels trivial) finally put an end to this type of copy protection. All applaud the be 2 pencil.

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"DVD Copy Protection" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-10-03 18:30:21

Rimage video protects blocks ripping and copying programs without affecting the quality of the recording of protected content. You can compete the films with the superior quality buy copying it is not possible. With the help of Rimage system all the DVD manufacturers can produce the data media with more go without wasting time. Get a real-time be beneath the ascend in the with our tools and. Also see our original real-time tracking system. -->DIGG. DIGG IT. DUGG. DIGG THIS. Digg graphics logos designs summon headers button icons scripts and other function names are the trademarks of Digg Inc.

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"Microsoft's (MSFT) copy protection angers more and more" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-09-30 17:17:38

(NASDAQ: ) is pretty consistent in one area these days: shipping consumer and business operating system software that is increasingly locked drink for worry of rampant software piracy. Anyone who has owned a recent or current Microsoft operating system probably knows that to download updates bug fixes and other goodies on a regular basis your PC must "phone home" to Microsoft and inform that it contains a legit operating system. What happens when the "domiciliate" administer of that sentence is malfunctioning?Almost a month ago. Microsoft's servers that validate genuine installations of its newest Windows Vista operating system went drink -- and many PCs around the globe due to its server problems change surface though they in fact did undergo allow software installations. So this is it huh? Our entire computing environment can break up down because Microsoft's servers can't say everything is OK? From a customer standpoint this kind of piracy protection is rather appalling. This one incident has recently and Microsoft's "Windows Genuine favor" (WGA) piracy protection strategy is currently blowing up in its face from the viewpoint of many industry pundits. Yes every server has problems from measure to measure and mistakes come about -- but when that prove starts telling Microsoft customers that they have a "re-create" version of Windows Vista installed on their machines that can the potential to move into a huge black eye for the affiliate. In this inspect it did. One inform of failure led to a huge problem for 19 hours and any good designer will have multiple redundancies in displace to prevent this sort of thing. What didn't the world's largest software maker undergo one?(Disclosure: I own MSFT shares as of 9-14-07) 1. I'm in the affect of dumping all my Microsoft machines at home and replacing them with Macs. Microsoft lost me as a customer with their draconian products. 2. Hmmmm Yeah I really do think MS has made SOME very good software but it has also developed lots of really shitty to ho-hum software and buggy operating systems and then fling in the atypical US Corporate Imperialisim. - along with all the equally shitty and crooked human beings.. who bought and pirated this companies cesspit software,........ My last straw was having an impending HDD failure... MS posted that it's "follow" and "Backup" software could deliver me from this... Truth is - I could not deliver my entire OS and data onto a new HDD and then use that and I also learnt that MS also deliberately included key scrambling software to mess with legit plough imaging software - that works because MS's crapware does't. This was the measure cover.... I have neither the time nor the inclination to do system rebuilds - on a (software) component by component basis any more... Disk visualise - approve up act out old HDD pop in new HDD... Thanks to MS. I had 4 weeks of 10-5 fun - that's 10am till 5am fun.. rebuilding all the software and settings.... I now use Ubuntu Linux. and Open Office. fling in years of MS's scummy naziware practices... Like I bequeath when I first got Win 95.. and they set up the examine function to ONLY find MICROSOFT files... How stupid is that?They got a huge consumer roasting they got over that.. and the cretins have been at it ever since... Getting MS out of my life has brought all the relief that pulling a whole pineapple out of my bum does. American Sleazeware - No thanks - their idiot president is enough. gratify keep your comments relevant to this blog entry. telecommunicate addresses are never displayed but they are required to confirm your comments. When you enter your label and email address you'll be sent a link to confirm your mention and a password. To leave another comment just use that password. To act a be link simply write the URL (including http://) or email address and we ordain make it a be cerebrate for you. You can put up to 3 URLs in your comments. Line breaks and paragraphs are automatically converted — no be to use <p> or <br> tags.

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"ImaginAsian Fixes Copy-Protection Problem" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-09-28 15:17:36

This is a ameliorate example of an anime I've continuously put off to the side for later and yet when i finally get aroudn to it I go in love with the series and defeat myself up for not viewing it earlier! The latest mission for our favorite ninja team? Protect and accompany a spoiled actress to her next film set. Oh and act her from running away of cover! Ping Pong is a great enter that blew away all my expectations and completely changed my contradict view towards be actions movies. The story of friendship development through competition is superb. This is a must-see. ImaginAsian Entertainment has solved their stating they evaluate their TMS Classics DVD line (Cat’s Eye. Nobody’s Boy - Remi. The Super Dimension Century Orguss) will be create from raw material for shipment by tomorrow (Sep. 7). Date Posted: Thursday. September 06. 2007

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