CB2206 posted a thread on our forum pointing us to an article on Chip.de. In this article another copy protection is announced by Sony and publisher JoWooD. It seems to be another version of SecuROM that also adds checks during the game. According to the experts on our forum, this will not make the protection any stronger then before.
JoWooD has a reputation when it comes to copy protections on their games. In earlier versions they also included messages to notorius protection bypassers, such as our forum moderator spath, and DAEMON Tools developer VeNoM386.
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With the permanent inquiry of the original CD also Crackern the work is to be made more difficult. They must spend an enormous expenditure according to data of JoWooD "on the distance of all copy protection measures". Besides the Cracker is to be able never to determine "whether they really removed the complete copy protection".
"we are the firm conviction to introduce with this method a new standard in the industry to which also for experienced robbery copiers a genuine obstacle will represent", means Gerhard Neuhofer of JoWooD. Already for the plays "the industrial giant II" and with "far west" was last used the new copy protection and gave to JoWooD according to own data a "substantially longer sales period".
You can read the entire story in German here. Note that current versions of SecuROM are currently pretty easily beaten. Currently Alcohol and BlindWrite seem to do the job just fine.
We have several reports of users that were able to make a backup of games protected by this protection. If you would like to learn how, visit our Burning Software Forum!
Source: Chip.de
