On Thursday, March 9, 2000 at 8:00:00 AM UTC, andy wrote:
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It's done for, the last successfully pirateable system is the
Sony PlayStation, and no future systems can possibly be pirated economically.
The Sega Dreamcast is refreshing, because it's got a successful
anti-pirate scheme. I love it. No piracy on the Dreamcast, and
after a year of hacking by opportunistic scumbag pirates, the
DC remains largely unbroken. Too bad for the pirates, great for
the videogame industry.
Sega doesn't get all of the credit, however. The N64 led the
way, in staying with carts and making it so that the piracy
costs more than the average thief is willing to pay.
The Z64 and other ROM copiers were an abject failure, for the
simple reason that they were too expensive. Thieves want their
stuff CHEAP (preferably free), and a $200 cart copier won't
sell well at all.
It's Sony's turn now, with the PS2. They've already stepped
up with DVD, which is hard to crack economically in and of
itself. Sony can easily make a custom DVD standard, as it
was Sony who co-authored the DVD standard in the first place.
It looks like pirates are going to be playing last years'
games for several years to come. Of course, with the piracy
being totally history on the consoles, the PC is going to
get swamped with thieves wanting freebies, but I don't much
care for the PC gang anyway.
I'm gonna be the first one to tell the pirates, BYE BYE!!
Don't let the door hit you on the ass on your way out!!
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This certainly aged well...
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