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Originally Posted by MattDizzle
Disk authentication is pointless, and can be beaten with a simple virtual drive or nocd cracked EXE.
The only way for DRM to be effective is to intrude. If its not intrusive about weither your game is real or not, or you just register once and its over, its easy to defeat.
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Firstly, running a game from a virtual drive usually requires a bit more faffing around than simply making an image of the game. The copy protection isn't that poor.
Secondly, intrusive copy protection is equally pointless. It can always be cracked in the end and only temporarily delays the inevitable. On the flip side, as has been stated a number of time, it makes life difficult for legitimate users and doesn't affect pirates one iota. How is that effective copy protection when it positively encourages people to pirate the game in order to get the best gameplaying experience?