11 Oct
2003
11 Oct
'03
6:28 p.m.
On Saturday 11 October 2003 04:38, Steve Schear wrote:
What the program does is make unauthorized copies of games slowly degrade, by exploiting the systems for error correction that computers use to cope with CD-ROMs or DVDs that have become scratched. Software protected by Fade contains fragments of "subversive" code designed to seem like scratches, which are then arranged on the disc in a pattern that will be used to prevent copying.
The C-64 headbanger comes to the 21st century! Can parameter patches be far behind?
Bruce Everiss of Codemasters says, "The beauty of this is that the degrading copy becomes a sales promotion tool. People go out and buy an original version."
"Stupid fucking game! <toss> Next!"