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"Illegal gaming and piracy"

As a true gamer and an honest person,I am completely against the idea of piracy and illegal gaming.Alright I've watched the odd dodgey video, but it doesn't really count does it?Besides, I'm not exactly making money out of it.Unlike those who have poduced a complete underworld of gaming, making pirate video's and copied video games.But if you look at it, who can blame them.The prices on video games are becoming higher and higher these days,so if people can easily take advantage of illegal systems,whose stopping them.Prosicution is rare and nobody I know has ever been caught.I am not saying this makes it ok,but how do game companies expect a child to buy the latest games.
Also companies don't seem to be doing that much about it.The amounts of money Sony game dealers must have been ripped off when the chip was invented is unimaginable.I believe you can get your playstation chipped at a price of about ten pounds now,and to buy a copied game is about a fiva.Therefore,instead of getting 5 video games for christmas for the price of 150 pounds,someone could get 30 games.Unbelievable.
Thankfully PC game producers have got wind of this black market business and have found ways to stop it.As most of you experienced gamers know,a PC doesn't even need a chip to played copied games.Therefore you can copy games off your mates and all your going to have to pay for is the price of a blank CD.I hate it.However,when a CD re-writer copies a disc it looks to copy the music files(as the machines were originally produced to copy music.)Now what companies are starting to do is program games so that the CD re-writable cannot recognise music files.However, I am sad to hear that patches can already be downloaded to get around this problem.
Luckily,none off the criminal masterminds of the gaming world have managed to design a chip that will play copied games on the PS2.Yess!Suckers!But,I can't help wondering how long it will be before they do,never I hope.I just don't think its fair that honest people like me and you are paying £40 for a game,while theeves are paying £5 and ripping us and honest companies, like special reserve off.
The copying problem seemed to have been solved on the N64 as cartridges are used.However,as the GC will be using CD's It looks like another company will be ripped off.
How can we stop them?

The encryption is never really a prolem to crack... theres always someone with a mate who works for a company that writes GC games...

Arnt they going to use miniDVD's to replace MiniDiscs?

Playstation ones aren't locked.


Anyway, I quote: "It's finny how the best solutions are always so simple..."


Either you were quite obviously just refering to the small CD, or you seem to be a genius at encryption... I think the former...

Anyway, calm down, I have now, and so should you.

grix-

i didnt say that small discs was nintendo's only anti-piracy measure, did i now? i just said it stops people copying them on normal CD or DVD copiers. of course the discs will be locked - even playstation ones are.

so that makes my head full of crap does it?

jake

Try not to laugh too hard...

http://www.thesun.co.uk /news/13310232

I believe that these 28% only do it part-time though, the rest of the time they watch basketball.

And that's quite impressive when you consider that only 28% of americans actually think.

For what its worth... I'll bet both Sonys PS2 anti-piracy and Nintendos GameCube anti-piracy with both be well and truly hacked within six months of both their releases...

-- 28% of Americans think that our army's high-tech military equipment is too expensive to risk in combat.

Grix Thraves wrote:

I will crack if some
> else comes on here with their head full of crap.

I'd better go then!

Or did you mean somebody new?


MD PQMS8/00

Woh! hold your horses there partner, I'm a Nintendo fan through and through. I will buy a gamecube as soon as they are released over here and I already have about 16 games for my N64. I'm innocent m'lud.

I do also have a dreamcast, saturn and playstation, not forgetting a gameboy, sega gamegear and PC. ahem.

shut up pb. your brain need some tweaking a bit! Sony Zealot blatantly. IT uses special disks designed by nintendo if Sony want to copy it let it be so, but we won't be wowing like you.