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As you developed something it would degrade over time, if you just had it saved somewhere nothing would happen to the file. The more you used the pirates copy t
by paulie_a 8y ago
As you developed something it would degrade over time, if you just had it saved somewhere nothing would happen to the file. The more you used the pirates copy the more your file would get worse. No you could not restore access to the original, it degraded the polygon count on models.
I don't agree with this approach but it was pretty damn clever.
- ryandrake 8y agoWhat’s sad is all the waste: count up all the engineering time spent on all these more and more clever and elaborate copy prevention schemes, and count up all the time spent defeating them. The world will never get back the collective productivity wasted on this arms race.
- paulie_a 8y agoWhile the final implementation of the copy protection and code that cracked it are not particularly useful in the general sense I would assume those developers on both sides learned a lot in the process. It was a stupid waste of time outside of a valuable coding exercise. If I was on either side of that battle it would be on my resume.