Igor Chudov @ home wrote:
I can hardly believe that any of these schemes are undefeatable.
As soon as the CPU starts talking to a video and sound board, this whole thing becomes easily breakable. All one needs to do is to capture the signals that go to these boards and re-record them.
Right?
Of course. Such schemes usually increase the amount of piracy in the long-term, because it encourages people to convert the material into a more easily copied form. If you've ever followed any of the warez scenes, what you find is generally about 1% of the population acutally obtain and convert the material, and the other 99% just trade copies around. (Consider, for example, the number of people who actually know how to dump the contents of an eprom chip versus the number of sites where you can download copies of nintendo/sega/etc games.)