3DGPU has more information on the latest SecuROM protection that gives a lot of trouble at the moment. Apperently this website has sources close to game developers. Intresting, and a bit dissapointing is that it seems that game developers don't care about no-cd cracks, but would love to stop the 1:1 backupping.
This is strange as no-cd cracks modify their software and thus is illegal, while 1:1 backups are personal backups, do not modify the software and can be considered as a legal backup. And looking at the success of the latest SecuROM this could certainly become widely implemented.
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From what I have been told, the new configuration uses a special glass master and pressing media with certain unique characteristics that allows the SecuROM protection to tie itself specifically to the physical structure and characteristics of each disk so that copies are very difficult if not impossible for the average consumer to make. I was further told that since copy protection companies were not able to get many CD drive manufacturers to comply with requests to build protection detection into their firmware and other aspects of the drives, the copy protection companies opted to go with one thing they can control - the physical media itself. The media is apparently special ordered and not designed to be made available to the public. Kind of like how you are issued keys to your post-office box that are not supposed to be copied by retail shops or how some new keys include custom microchips that cannot be duplicated by key fabs for public use. |
The solution will probably be emulation as DEAMON Tools does, and the yesterday officially released Alcohol Software. But all we want is a legal 1:1 backup, it seems we should forget about that, or will someone come up with a solution?
Source: 3dgpu.com
