Tuesday, 10. June 2008
Topic: COPYRIGHT - on June 10, 2008 at 10:26:35 AM CEST
A History of Copy Protection
No technology has played a larger part in the way digital media - including games - is distributed and consumed than the Internet, and its effect on piracy and the efforts to counteract it has been profound. In its earliest days, 'Net connectivity allowed those who knew how to use it to connect via BBS, putting hackers and crackers in touch with each other and allowing them to share ideas. Now, of course, most PC owners have some form of Internet connection, many at speeds that would have been ludicrous even as recently as the mid-'90s, giving them access to entire copies of cracked games that have been made available via IRC or peer-to-peer network.
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