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Piracy?
We all know it exists, and most if not all of us will have bought/seen or read about piracy in some form.
But just how serious a problem is it. I remember back in the day of the Commadore amiga you could borrow games of a friend and copy them onto a disk without any trouble at all. Then when the playstation came out at first there was no problems with piracy, but it didn't last long. Im sure you all know about the pen and blue-tac trick toallow you to change the disks at the logo. Then the chip was developed and people where getting there playstations chipped to allow them to play import games and also "pirate copies". Sony tried to prevent this by writting code on to the games but this code could be overwritten by adding patches to the disk when copying them. The N64 was "succesful" against piracy coz the cartridge that the game comes on is "pirate proof" and would cost alot to copy. It seems that all CD based machines are more at risk and with most future consoles comming out is the problem going to get worse? Now the PS2 is here and at the moment sony looks like its prevented the problem with piracy. You can have your PS2 chipped to play copies for your PS1 or multi region DVD's but nothing to allow you to play copies of PS2 games that are DVD based. But I think it's only a matter of time before some clever chap designs a way round this and starts the problem with piracy for sony all over again.
But is Piracy a big problem for Sony and others like microsoft/nintendo/sega? It costs them millions each year. Some people refuse to buy pirate copies (they say they don't play like the real thing, stop working after a while) but in truth they are an exact copy of the original so how can they be different? I guess it all comes down to the person, do you buy a pirate copy to save a pretty penny and break the law( doubt anyone will catch you though) or buy official games and remain loyal to the company and watch others buy a new game everyweek for £5 while you have to wait and save up for weeks to get 1. Its your choice, but piracy will always happen. It seems to be everywhere, just a part of everyday life.
Whether is to do with games or even music (whether its downloading it or copying a mates CD), and don't forget the PC ( Why pay £300 for software when you can get it for a tenner?) its always going to be there and there isn't really anyway of stopping it. Unless people admit that its wrong and we all stop doing it but i doubt that will happen.
Anyone else got their views on this?
We all know it exists, and most if not all of us will have bought/seen or read about piracy in some form.
But just how serious a problem is it. I remember back in the day of the Commadore amiga you could borrow games of a friend and copy them onto a disk without any trouble at all. Then when the playstation came out at first there was no problems with piracy, but it didn't last long. Im sure you all know about the pen and blue-tac trick toallow you to change the disks at the logo. Then the chip was developed and people where getting there playstations chipped to allow them to play import games and also "pirate copies". Sony tried to prevent this by writting code on to the games but this code could be overwritten by adding patches to the disk when copying them. The N64 was "succesful" against piracy coz the cartridge that the game comes on is "pirate proof" and would cost alot to copy. It seems that all CD based machines are more at risk and with most future consoles comming out is the problem going to get worse? Now the PS2 is here and at the moment sony looks like its prevented the problem with piracy. You can have your PS2 chipped to play copies for your PS1 or multi region DVD's but nothing to allow you to play copies of PS2 games that are DVD based. But I think it's only a matter of time before some clever chap designs a way round this and starts the problem with piracy for sony all over again.
But is Piracy a big problem for Sony and others like microsoft/nintendo/sega? It costs them millions each year. Some people refuse to buy pirate copies (they say they don't play like the real thing, stop working after a while) but in truth they are an exact copy of the original so how can they be different? I guess it all comes down to the person, do you buy a pirate copy to save a pretty penny and break the law( doubt anyone will catch you though) or buy official games and remain loyal to the company and watch others buy a new game everyweek for £5 while you have to wait and save up for weeks to get 1. Its your choice, but piracy will always happen. It seems to be everywhere, just a part of everyday life.
Whether is to do with games or even music (whether its downloading it or copying a mates CD), and don't forget the PC ( Why pay £300 for software when you can get it for a tenner?) its always going to be there and there isn't really anyway of stopping it. Unless people admit that its wrong and we all stop doing it but i doubt that will happen.
Anyone else got their views on this?
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The EPROM " Erasable programable Read Only Memory" could be the answer for a while.
It would be programmed by storing charge at a transistor gate and can be reprogrammed by removing the charge. This in theory should allow developers to create a game as usual but when someone tries to copy it, then it erases the original? Would be a good idea if it worked, but Im guessing if someone is clever enough to design this, then there is someone who is clever enough to find a way round it.
It would be programmed by storing charge at a transistor gate and can be reprogrammed by removing the charge. This in theory should allow developers to create a game as usual but when someone tries to copy it, then it erases the original? Would be a good idea if it worked, but Im guessing if someone is clever enough to design this, then there is someone who is clever enough to find a way round it.
Piracy is wrong, but when it so easy to do there isn't much that can be done, the advent of cheap DVD-R drives will see the anti-piracy of the PS2 crash, as it will for any other console, the best hope is that Kodak manage to finish their fool prof EPROM Discs (they're called something like that) and we will all be happy!!
I am actually considering getting my PS2 chipped to play the DVDs in colour with an RGB Scart cable, and play region 1 discs!!
I am actually considering getting my PS2 chipped to play the DVDs in colour with an RGB Scart cable, and play region 1 discs!!
Piracy?
We all know it exists, and most if not all of us will have bought/seen or read about piracy in some form.
But just how serious a problem is it. I remember back in the day of the Commadore amiga you could borrow games of a friend and copy them onto a disk without any trouble at all. Then when the playstation came out at first there was no problems with piracy, but it didn't last long. Im sure you all know about the pen and blue-tac trick toallow you to change the disks at the logo. Then the chip was developed and people where getting there playstations chipped to allow them to play import games and also "pirate copies". Sony tried to prevent this by writting code on to the games but this code could be overwritten by adding patches to the disk when copying them. The N64 was "succesful" against piracy coz the cartridge that the game comes on is "pirate proof" and would cost alot to copy. It seems that all CD based machines are more at risk and with most future consoles comming out is the problem going to get worse? Now the PS2 is here and at the moment sony looks like its prevented the problem with piracy. You can have your PS2 chipped to play copies for your PS1 or multi region DVD's but nothing to allow you to play copies of PS2 games that are DVD based. But I think it's only a matter of time before some clever chap designs a way round this and starts the problem with piracy for sony all over again.
But is Piracy a big problem for Sony and others like microsoft/nintendo/sega? It costs them millions each year. Some people refuse to buy pirate copies (they say they don't play like the real thing, stop working after a while) but in truth they are an exact copy of the original so how can they be different? I guess it all comes down to the person, do you buy a pirate copy to save a pretty penny and break the law( doubt anyone will catch you though) or buy official games and remain loyal to the company and watch others buy a new game everyweek for £5 while you have to wait and save up for weeks to get 1. Its your choice, but piracy will always happen. It seems to be everywhere, just a part of everyday life.
Whether is to do with games or even music (whether its downloading it or copying a mates CD), and don't forget the PC ( Why pay £300 for software when you can get it for a tenner?) its always going to be there and there isn't really anyway of stopping it. Unless people admit that its wrong and we all stop doing it but i doubt that will happen.
Anyone else got their views on this?
We all know it exists, and most if not all of us will have bought/seen or read about piracy in some form.
But just how serious a problem is it. I remember back in the day of the Commadore amiga you could borrow games of a friend and copy them onto a disk without any trouble at all. Then when the playstation came out at first there was no problems with piracy, but it didn't last long. Im sure you all know about the pen and blue-tac trick toallow you to change the disks at the logo. Then the chip was developed and people where getting there playstations chipped to allow them to play import games and also "pirate copies". Sony tried to prevent this by writting code on to the games but this code could be overwritten by adding patches to the disk when copying them. The N64 was "succesful" against piracy coz the cartridge that the game comes on is "pirate proof" and would cost alot to copy. It seems that all CD based machines are more at risk and with most future consoles comming out is the problem going to get worse? Now the PS2 is here and at the moment sony looks like its prevented the problem with piracy. You can have your PS2 chipped to play copies for your PS1 or multi region DVD's but nothing to allow you to play copies of PS2 games that are DVD based. But I think it's only a matter of time before some clever chap designs a way round this and starts the problem with piracy for sony all over again.
But is Piracy a big problem for Sony and others like microsoft/nintendo/sega? It costs them millions each year. Some people refuse to buy pirate copies (they say they don't play like the real thing, stop working after a while) but in truth they are an exact copy of the original so how can they be different? I guess it all comes down to the person, do you buy a pirate copy to save a pretty penny and break the law( doubt anyone will catch you though) or buy official games and remain loyal to the company and watch others buy a new game everyweek for £5 while you have to wait and save up for weeks to get 1. Its your choice, but piracy will always happen. It seems to be everywhere, just a part of everyday life.
Whether is to do with games or even music (whether its downloading it or copying a mates CD), and don't forget the PC ( Why pay £300 for software when you can get it for a tenner?) its always going to be there and there isn't really anyway of stopping it. Unless people admit that its wrong and we all stop doing it but i doubt that will happen.
Anyone else got their views on this?
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