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Anti-Piracy Chip?

[May 23, 2008, 6:52 pm ET] - Share - Viewing Comments

Encryption chip will end piracy, open markets, says Bushnell on GamesIndustry.biz quotes Atari founder Nolan Bushnell saying a new encryption chip being installed on new computer motherboards holds the key to eradicating piracy of PC games:

"What that says is that in the games business we will be able to encrypt with an absolutely verifiable private key in the encryption world - which is uncrackable by people on the internet and by giving away passwords - which will allow for a huge market to develop in some of the areas where piracy has been a real problem."

Bushnell thinks that piracy of movies and music, however, is probably unstoppable because "if you can watch it and you can hear it, you can copy it."

"Games are a different thing, because games are so integrated with the code. The TPM will, in fact, absolutely stop piracy of gameplay.

"As soon as the installed base of the TPM hardware chip gets large enough, we will start to see revenues coming from Asia and India at a time when before it didn't make sense."

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Re: Won't work.

May 23, 2008, 20:18

Bill Borre

I think the mindset of the people who make these comments is very interesting. They are basically saying "There's a whole bunch of criminals out there that are going to turn into a profitable market once we implement our solution X." I think the Sins of a Solar Empire Devs have a much more realistic view of the situation when they say "Pirates are irrelevant. The free riders aren't going to pay for the product regardless."

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Comment [quote="Bill Borre"May 23, 2008, 20:18]I think the mindset of the people who make these comments is very interesting. They are basically saying "There's a whole bunch of criminals out there that are going to turn into a profitable market once we implement our solution X." I think the Sins of a Solar Empire Devs have a much more realistic view of the situation when they say "Pirates are irrelevant. The free riders aren't going to pay for the product regardless." [/quote]

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