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Originally posted by Hivetyrant:
Will they be putting Janus in with Longhorn?
I heard that it will have a heap of security stuff built into it to stop people from using burnt disks and illegfal copies of everything, but is it all true?
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Not sure what lengths they will go to as far as that is concerned but I know one thing. If it can be done, it can also be undone. It's impossible for you DVD player to read other region discs without a region change, yet run a program in the background and it's done. Pretty much speaks for everything else too if you ask me.
Also keeping in mind that at this current stage, we are legally allowed to keep backups of our games, music, etc, there is no reason why this should be done. I run a virtualdrive or have full instals of games with No CD cracks on my laptop as I cannot carry a heap of disks with me everywhere I go. If there was a feature that rendered the use of them impossible, I would do my best to find, or create a way to make it possible. If I make a purchase of certain products, I expect to enjoy them. I don't like the copy protections in certain games as they will not work on some or even many systems even if you have the original. Take Far Cry for instance. I payed $90AU and can't play it without a NO CD Crack for the reason that my desktop PC is running emulation software (Nero 6) which I also purchased. Uninstaling it still does not work so the creation of a second user account with no privilages to anything but windows and far cry works. A small price to pay but not considering I have bought the game. Which brings me to the same thing once again. If it's made it can be unmade, therefore I find no reason why the legitimate consumer should also pay the price alongside the ilegitime one.
Anyway this is getting off track so I'll leave it here. I just wished to point out that everything has it's limits regardless of how high the protection goes. I believe we see more than enough of this every day to neglect or remain in disbelief about it.