One game I would hate to be in is in the anti piracy arena. Sure, it would be challenging and interesting but it must have the worst job satisfaction in IT. It seems to me that you never win. You may disrupt a few things but every time someone gets caught the pirates adapt and you are back to square one.
Reading this article it seems pirates have now moved back to FTP sites to host their warez. It doesn’t seem that long ago that was where they were hosted anyway. So we have come full circle and the wheel is still turning.
I’ve lost touch with the warez scene. I’ll bet though that you can still get all the warez you want on DVD from your local DVD/Drug/Gun dealing/Child sex slave dealer for about a fiver. £5 for you non Brits.
This scene is so similar now. You have corporates spending millions on piracy and you can still download anything you want. You have government spending trillions on stopping drugs and guns being distributed but you can still get drugs and guns wherever you want.
There is one major difference though. You do not get anyone giving away drugs or guns. They are in it for the money. The DVD distributors are in it for the money as well but usually because they supply a nice shiny disk with the movie or warez. We don’t mind the few quid they charge. Their suppliers on the other hand seem to supply their warez for free. People are cracking the protection and distributing it for free as some kind of trophy. The harder the protection the more kudos they get from their peers.
So how to corporates compete with that? It takes weeks to create simple protection, months to create something new. It takes crackers hours to break it. There is a competition to be the first to break a new protection scheme and it can make their name in the niche crackers world.
Prohibition is a bitch for governments and corporates. Big money vs the little guy. David vs Goliath. Got to love the little guy.
Pirates ahoy!
One game I would hate to be in is in the anti piracy arena. Sure, it would be challenging and interesting but it must have the worst job satisfaction in IT. It seems to me that you never win. You may disrupt a few things but every time someone gets caught the pirates adapt and you are back to square one.
Reading this article it seems pirates have now moved back to FTP sites to host their warez. It doesn’t seem that long ago that was where they were hosted anyway. So we have come full circle and the wheel is still turning.
I’ve lost touch with the warez scene. I’ll bet though that you can still get all the warez you want on DVD from your local DVD/Drug/Gun dealing/Child sex slave dealer for about a fiver. £5 for you non Brits.
This scene is so similar now. You have corporates spending millions on piracy and you can still download anything you want. You have government spending trillions on stopping drugs and guns being distributed but you can still get drugs and guns wherever you want.
There is one major difference though. You do not get anyone giving away drugs or guns. They are in it for the money. The DVD distributors are in it for the money as well but usually because they supply a nice shiny disk with the movie or warez. We don’t mind the few quid they charge. Their suppliers on the other hand seem to supply their warez for free. People are cracking the protection and distributing it for free as some kind of trophy. The harder the protection the more kudos they get from their peers.
So how to corporates compete with that? It takes weeks to create simple protection, months to create something new. It takes crackers hours to break it. There is a competition to be the first to break a new protection scheme and it can make their name in the niche crackers world.
Prohibition is a bitch for governments and corporates. Big money vs the little guy. David vs Goliath. Got to love the little guy.