You sell gaming pc and seperate them from normal pc's. You place the copy protection right in the hardware. You also do that with gaming laptops. That might work.
and that'd take away a good amount of revenue. I game on my pc a bit, but i wouldn't neccessarily call myself a pc gamer. I have a fairly decent rig (quad core 2.4 ghz, 3 gb ram, 8500gt) so it can play all the good games (spore, diablo 3, sc2, etc.) but i can't run really what qualifies as this generation graphics to well.
There was a lot of flak generated over "Trusted Computing" and the "Trusted Platform Module". Users want control over their own PCs, and this would've taken it away from them.
You sell gaming pc and seperate them from normal pc's. You place the copy protection right in the hardware. You also do that with gaming laptops. That might work.blackdreamhunk
You sell gaming pc and seperate them from normal pc's. You place the copy protection right in the hardware. You also do that with gaming laptops. That might work.blackdreamhunk
You sell gaming pc and seperate them from normal pc's. You place the copy protection right in the hardware. You also do that with gaming laptops. That might work.blackdreamhunk
Thats good but there are many PC hardware manufacturers and they would all have to agree which aint going to happen.
Second most dedicated PC gamer's build their own machines and if they don't build they certainly upgrade, in which case we pop the hud of our gaming tower's quite regular, it wouldn't be hard for us to circumvent any hardware DRM invented.
[QUOTE="blackdreamhunk"]You sell gaming pc and seperate them from normal pc's. You place the copy protection right in the hardware. You also do that with gaming laptops. That might work.Bond007uk
Thats good but there are many PC hardware manufacturers and they would all have to agree which aint going to happen.
Second most dedicated PC gamer's build their own machines and if they don't build they certainly upgrade, in which case we pop the hud of our gaming tower's quite regular, it wouldn't be hard for us to circumvent any hardware DRM invented.
Not if every piece of hardware has some kind of DRM in it (such as by law). Then the only way to circumvent it would be to dig into the circuit boards, and not even most PC-savvy users have the skills to tackle printed circuit boards.
[QUOTE="blackdreamhunk"]You sell gaming pc and seperate them from normal pc's. You place the copy protection right in the hardware. You also do that with gaming laptops. That might work.HuusAsking
Thats good but there are many PC hardware manufacturers and they would all have to agree which aint going to happen.
Second most dedicated PC gamer's build their own machines and if they don't build they certainly upgrade, in which case we pop the hud of our gaming tower's quite regular, it wouldn't be hard for us to circumvent any hardware DRM invented.
Not if every piece of hardware has some kind of DRM in it (such as by law). Then the only way to circumvent it would be to dig into the circuit boards, and not even most PC-savvy users have the skills to tackle printed circuit boards.
You have a good point there. I build many a machine, but I don't think I would like to take a soldering iron to my motherboard.
[QUOTE="blackdreamhunk"]You sell gaming pc and seperate them from normal pc's. You place the copy protection right in the hardware. You also do that with gaming laptops. That might work.Bond007uk
Thats good but there are many PC hardware manufacturers and they would all have to agree which aint going to happen.
Second most dedicated PC gamer's build their own machines and if they don't build they certainly upgrade, in which case we pop the hud of our gaming tower's quite regular, it wouldn't be hard for us to circumvent any hardware DRM invented.
Not if every piece of hardware has some kind of DRM in it (such as by law). Then the only way to circumvent it would be to dig into the circuit boards, and not even most PC-savvy users have the skills to tackle printed circuit boards.
You have a good point there. I build many a machine, but I don't think I would like to take a soldering iron to my motherboard.
There is still the expansion ports?
Fit it into the port itself, so no chance of circumvention.
[QUOTE="bobbetybob"]Sue/close down bittorrent, limewire, etc etc. Problem solved, for a while at least.wdave92
dosent work some servers for bittorent are not under the jurisdiction of the DRMA Or the US
and even if they do get sued they cant exactly close them down for what their users do there just links to the stuff not the actuall owners
Pressure the countries hosting them; threaten to list them as conducive to terrorism and block their addresses (I know, it's unrealistically extreme, but you never know...).
[QUOTE="bobbetybob"]Sue/close down bittorrent, limewire, etc etc. Problem solved, for a while at least.HuusAsking
dosent work some servers for bittorent are not under the jurisdiction of the DRMA Or the US
and even if they do get sued they cant exactly close them down for what their users do there just links to the stuff not the actuall owners
Pressure the countries hosting them; threaten to list them as conducive to terrorism and block their addresses (I know, it's unrealistically extreme, but you never know...).
Yeah, pull out the terrorist card, now that's a new one.:roll:
Why not just have it like the iTunes gift cards you can buy? Where you have to activate it at the cash register for it to work?AirGuitarist87
Interesting thought, but logistics would be killer. Plus, there's the problem of activation scams and insider angles. What about stores who still do things the old fashioned way and thus would have no means of activating them (that couldn't then be exploited by lowlifes)?
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