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On the NES, EarthBound is notable for a defense-in-depth approach to copy protection (the last layer is interesting): http://earthboundcentral.com/2011/05/eart
by bentcorner 12y ago
On the NES, EarthBound is notable for a defense-in-depth approach to copy protection (the last layer is interesting):
http://earthboundcentral.com/2011/05/earthbounds-copy-protection/ http://earthboundcentral.com/2011/05/earthbounds-copy-protec...
I wonder if that helped any, though. At some point players are just going to think "this is a terrible game" and tell their friends that. The "code wheel"/shareware approach seems gentler. Give them a taste of the game for free, and then put up barriers to incentivize them to pay for the game. (IMO the F2P model has taken this way too far in this direction)
- timpark 12y agoYeah, some games are a bit too subtle, like reducing player accuracy in an FPS. Others can be quite funny when players complain online. http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2013-04-29-game-dev-tycoon-forces-those-who-pirate-the-game-to-unwittingly-fail-from-piracy http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2013-04-29-game-dev-tycoon... It's pretty old and has been posted here before, but one of my favourite DRM examples/writeups is Spyro: Year of the Dragon. http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/131439/keeping_the_pirates_at_bay.php http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/131439/keeping_the_pir...
- Shivetya 12y agoI wonder if you could do that with music, put a few off key notes or change a word in a song and have it uploaded to various sites? Would seem like you could have fun with people that way and still get yourself heard.
- timpark 12y agoI thought I had read that DAT (digital audio tape) detected altered notes/frequencies to avoid copying, but it appears to only have been a proposed idea. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_Copy_Management_System#History http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_Copy_Management_System#H... People have done pitch-shifting and other tricks to get around YouTube's Content ID in the past. And the fictional word "esquivalience" was added to the New Oxford American Dictionary to detect copies. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Oxford_American_Dictionary#Fictitious_entry http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Oxford_American_Dictionary#...
- nosuchthing 12y agoCopy detection for maps: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trap_street http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trap_street
- qbrass 12y agoJust upload the song encoded at 24Kb/s mono off a CD that you dropped on the sidewalk and kicked around. Seems to be how they did it during the late 90's early 00's.