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Encryption chips to end PC game piracy?
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The following comments relate to this news article:
article published on 25 May, 2008
According to Atari founder Nolan Bushnell, PC game piracy will be a thing of the past thanks to new stealth encryption chips embedded in your computers.
"There is a stealth encryption chip called a TPM that is going on the motherboards of most of the computers that are coming out now," he added.
"What that says is that in the games business we will be able to encrypt with an absolutely ... [ read the full article ]
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Adamontar
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28. May 2008 @ 09:21 |
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If someone on the internet can crack and infect the usa military government billion dollar program with a computer virus using a home pc, a pc game is nothing compared to this. Everything is crackable, so why do they bother.
LIVE LONG and PIRATE
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maryjayne
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28. May 2008 @ 11:56 |
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As a heavy PC gamer, I would like to say that I would never purchase a motherboard that tells me what I can do with the software that I install on the machine. Currently I have a home built system that will be upgradable for at least another 3 years (based on my budget for upgrading and the rate that upgrades are falling). As long as the older motherboards are still available, I dont see why anyone that knows how to build a system would use a motherboard with this type of technology.
As for the games not running, if the motherboard does not have the chip: do the big businesses really think that people who buy gaming computers are going to be willing to buy into these games if they cannot run them on their current system? I dont know about anyone else but I do not intend to go out and spend another $200 on a barebone to get the right components to play one or two games that I would consider purchasing. Plus the gaming industry will be shooting themselves in the head if they go toward this technology for the same reason. Simply put, people do not have or are not willing to buy a new computer just to play a few games and the few that are willing will not make the move profitable enough for the gaming industry.
Seems like more and more businesses are going toward the same business model: rebuy all of your current stuff so you can have the next greatest thing and we will then make you rebuy everything again in a few years when the next greatest technology comes out.
I for one am not buying into this business model, and I never will.
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packrat1
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28. May 2008 @ 13:54 |
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That's the easy part. They put out a version of Window$ (no point mentioning other OS's for gaming, sadly) that will only work on a mobo with TPM. Force most of the world to switch to that OS like they did with Vi$ta, produce games only for that OS, and there you go.
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Currently I have a home built system that will be upgradable for at least another 3 years (based on my budget for upgrading and the rate that upgrades are falling). As long as the older motherboards are still available, I dont see why anyone that knows how to build a system would use a motherboard with this type of technology.
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then make you rebuy everything again in a few years when the next greatest technology comes out.
I for one am not buying into this business model, and I never will.
Here! Here! I built my own computer last year too. And "rebuilt" my old Dell too. I run Ubuntu now. No DRM worries about anything. But I'll admit to not being a big player of high tech games.
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edsrouter
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28. May 2008 @ 15:47 |
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Come on guys, purchase your "GAMES" legally! In other industries such as music, movies, books, and most software they have other outlets of income and they will survive the piracy age. Not so much in games. Not to say the industry isn't greedy (I really would like to see stand-up arcades make a come-back) but the man has got to get paid.
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28. May 2008 @ 22:19 |
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Originally posted by edsrouter:
Come on guys, purchase your "GAMES" legally! In other industries such as music, movies, books, and most software they have other outlets of income and they will survive the piracy age. Not so much in games. Not to say the industry isn't greedy (I really would like to see stand-up arcades make a come-back) but the man has got to get paid.
oh,i do buy games. i will not shell out 50-30 dollars for repetitive games. that is the sole purpose i download game's if i don't like its gone quicker than it took to download it.
example, I downloaded crysis simply because the game looked really good. do you know how pissed i would have been if i had bought the game. Crysis was the worst FPS i had ever played before in my life. it was worse than BIOSHOCK.
if your guna say, well thats what game mags are for. I'll have you know that i don't believe those. as everybody has different tastes in games, thats why they have different editors for a different game review in all the Magazines. it makes sense you wouldn't give a FPS lover a RPG game to review. and as hybrid as games are know a days its easy to classify a game an all sections of gaming genre.
its not about the TPM chip its the ethics behind it. there not hurting Pirates-there hurting every day consumers, pirates have resources that could crack the TPM code before its even released. does the average consumer have that much time on there hands. I don't think so, this even could effect motherboard pricing, even the Computer genre itself.
and i'll leave it at that.
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maryjayne
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30. May 2008 @ 15:54 |
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Originally posted by edsrouter:
Come on guys, purchase your "GAMES" legally! In other industries such as music, movies, books, and most software they have other outlets of income and they will survive the piracy age. Not so much in games. Not to say the industry isn't greedy (I really would like to see stand-up arcades make a come-back) but the man has got to get paid.
I do buy games. All I am trying to say is if I purchase a game and it will not play with my system even if it does meet the minimum system requirements, then I will be returning it and looking for a pirated version. If the minimum system requirements include this new TPM chip then I wont even consider opening my wallet to support the game manufacturer.
If the gaming industry wants to make having this chip as part of future system requirements, then they will be eliminating a large customer base and just asking for tech savy people to pirate their game.
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30. May 2008 @ 16:05 |
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Originally posted by DXR88:
Originally posted by edsrouter:
Come on guys, purchase your "GAMES" legally! In other industries such as music, movies, books, and most software they have other outlets of income and they will survive the piracy age. Not so much in games. Not to say the industry isn't greedy (I really would like to see stand-up arcades make a come-back) but the man has got to get paid.
oh,i do buy games. i will not shell out 50-30 dollars for repetitive games. that is the sole purpose i download game's if i don't like its gone quicker than it took to download it.
example, I downloaded crysis simply because the game looked really good. do you know how pissed i would have been if i had bought the game. Crysis was the worst FPS i had ever played before in my life. it was worse than BIOSHOCK.
if your guna say, well thats what game mags are for. I'll have you know that i don't believe those. as everybody has different tastes in games, thats why they have different editors for a different game review in all the Magazines. it makes sense you wouldn't give a FPS lover a RPG game to review. and as hybrid as games are know a days its easy to classify a game an all sections of gaming genre.
its not about the TPM chip its the ethics behind it. there not hurting Pirates-there hurting every day consumers, pirates have resources that could crack the TPM code before its even released. does the average consumer have that much time on there hands. I don't think so, this even could effect motherboard pricing, even the Computer genre itself.
and i'll leave it at that.
Ouch I think BS was worse, Cryisis is a kinda bland sandbox shooter, if it was paced better it would ave been a great game but BS was jsut rushed out of the door IMO.
I no longer am a member of the sheeple gaming herd, if the industry ants me to pay attention to them they need to get off their buts and put more detail and polish into games, for instance Fallout 3 is no longer fallout its a FP adventure game set to advanced TES gameplay but its trying to be a action RPG that has sparked my interest as long as it dose not have secruoms online sht on it I think I will pre order it.
Copyright infringement is nothing more than civil disobedience to a bad set of laws. Lets renegotiate them.
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madman91
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3. June 2008 @ 15:31 |
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Did you hear that guys? It's going to be "uncrackable"!
Ultra-lol to that.
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4. June 2008 @ 18:26 |
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Uncrackable, oh no, well I guess we had better just give up then. LOL
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