[game_preservation] Problematic installation DRM; thoughts?

[Andrew Armstrong]

We'll see if this proves successful once the game is released, but 
didn't Bioshock get cracked and it had /exactly/ the same method of 
authentication? :-/

Good thoughts all, it's a realised problem, something will have to be 
sorted out (if not by us, by physical media archives for their 
collections), and no doubt customers, not the pirates, are the most 
inconvenienced, and we perhaps are the worst inconvenienced 20, 30 or 
100 years down the line. Hopefully they will become more long sighted 
regarding sales, like films are, once the games are perceived at hitting 
the peak of graphical quality.

Andrew

Jim Leonard wrote:

> Andrew Armstrong wrote:

>> * Installation requires an internet connection to validate the CD key 

>> (bad enough in itself)

>

> This is the future, unfortunately.  It's the only way to significantly 

> hurt pirates, because there's no way to write a keygen because the 

> verification code is on the server and not in the program.  So this 

> problem (for archivists) will never go away...

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