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Originally Posted by HarryT
I agree with you; many of the "activation" procedures required by modern PC software (especially games) are onerous in the extreme. I guess that's perhaps why the games industry is shifting towards "closed" games consoles like the Sony Playstation and Microsoft XBox which can be "locked down" and hence effectively eliminate piracy.
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Effectively eliminate piracy? That's laughable- do you know how easy it is to chip a Playstation so that one can use "backup games?' Very easy. You don't even need to chip the Playstation to hack its game protection- buy a boot disk and put one of the top-loading covers on it. Even a 10-year-old can do this.
Sony has had years and years of experience developing copy protection schemes- and none of them are effective. Even their foray into rootkits was a dismal failure.