"but everyone agrees it's to line their pockets."

I feel the pressure of the barrel against my temples
even now ...

(Meaning I can feel their 'gun to my head' forcing me to buy
 their box and cartridges.)

Not!

What ever happened to protecting intellectual property?

Jim

(PS. Please note that I changed the topic tag to 'OT'.)


----- Original Message -----
From: "M. Adam Davis" <adampic@UBASICS.COM>
To: <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2002 7:26 PM
Subject: Re: [PIC]: Xbox security has been broken?


> Makers of the game boxes (Sony for the PS2, Nintendo for the GameCube,
> Microsoft for the XBOX) all charge developers to sell games for their
> platform.  This can range from $1 to $20 per cartridge/dvd/cd.  They go
> to some pretty interesting extremes to make sure that people don't
> develop games that run on their boxes without paying.  One of them runs
> the game DVDs backwards, so the DVDs have to be specially pressed, one
> changed/extended the DVD such that a regular pressed DVD couldn't be
> used to play a game.  They also use methods to prevent japanese games
> from playing on american sold boxes and vice versa.  They claim copy
> protection, but everyone agrees it's to line their pockets.
>
> These 'mods' allow the ambitious to play out of region games, games
> encoded on regular DVD, DVD-R, DVD-RW, CD, etc.  They can also allow
> custom code development without paying through the nose for the official
> development kit.
>
> -Adam
>
> rad0 wrote:
>
> >what does this mean really?  Are people trying to steal the games
> >or are they trying to use the box for other than game purposes??
> >
> >
> >I don't have a game box, just wondered what this is about.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>

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