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New Motherboard Chip To End All PC Game Piracy?

Discussion in 'Game/SP News & Comments' started by Fairie, May 29, 2008.

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    [​IMG]Atari founder Nolan Bushnell has been quoted saying that a new chip is being designed to prevent people pirating PC games. Here's what he said:

    "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."


    Go check out the article here at Blue's News. Oh my, yes.
     
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    TPM chips have been in many laptops since 2006 and now Intel is integrating them on their motherboards. It seems that in a while all new computers will have one. How surprising that media companies want to enforce DRM with it.
     
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