A History of Copy Protection 536
GamerGirll1138 writes to tell us Next-gen has an amusing walk down memory lane with their history of copy protection. There have been some crazy schemes over the years to ensure that you paid for your software, everything from super-secret decoder rings to ridiculous document checks. "With bandwidth expanding and more and more games publishers exploring digital distribution, there's little doubt that we're entering a new phase in the history of copy protection and those who would defeat it. What's more, the demand for games as a chosen form of entertainment has never been higher. All this considered, it's impossible to believe that the cat-and-mouse game of piracy and copy protection will not reach new levels of intensity, with new technologies deployed on each side, and that some of them will surely create new hurdles for even those who simply wish to purchase and play the newest games. Ah, for the heady days of the code wheel."
Captain Goodnight and the Islands of Fear (Score:4, Funny)
Ultima - color book (Score:4, Funny)
What's amusing (Score:4, Funny)
Just think, without copy protection, we wouldn't have been able to distribute our viruses so easily. With all these kids trying to download cracks from any site that offered them, our bits have gone far and wide.
Thanks copy protection!
DONT - DONT... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:I have no issues with copy protection if... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:The ultimate copy protection: (Score:5, Funny)
Boy, I could have written this a lot faster (Score:4, Funny)
rev2: fail
rev3: fail
rev4: fail
rev5: fail
rev6: fail
current: seeing what happens (fingers crossed!)
C&C RA (Score:3, Funny)
It would've been a good photo to take of everyone's expressions at that exact moment, because it certainly took us by surprise and convinced us to, er, try even harder to crack it. Which we did.
Re:I have no issues with copy protection if... (Score:5, Funny)