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Message: 1543
Author: john_elliott_uk
Date: 14/12/2000
Subject: Re: JSWED v1.9.0 is out
<< but the idea is some sort of short pass
word which you can use to 'lock' the general lay user
out of your game with. presumably a 6 digit code or
something >>
Technically, this idea works only
as long as you can control all game editors and all
emulators. Since you don't control the emulators, anyone can
POKE the game engine while the game is running, so
Willy can get to a different room each time he starts.
Existing versions of JSWED don't have any kind of check,
so if the game can be imported into v1.9.0, the user
gets to see all the screens. JSWED doesn't know that
it has to check any secret codes.
Unfortunately,
the technical implausibility of this idea has not
stopped the lackeys of the music industry in America
buying monstrous laws that could conceivably be used to
protect this system. Under the stupidly-named Digital
Millennium Copyright Act, you can be prosecuted for
distributing software that circumvents a technical measure
that controls access to a copyrighted work; and I'm
sure that if you paid them enough, you'd find lawyers
who could argue that ignoring passcodes in JSW
snapshots fell under this provision.
See, for
instance,
http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2000/02/09/linuxdvd/index.html target=new>http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2000/02/09/linuxdvd/index.html>
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