Macrovision Game Piracy Solution

Macrovision, the company responsible for the famous VH copy-protection scheme of the same name, plans to introduce a novel anti-piracy scheme for PC games, reports the novel Scientist today. The a whole called "Fade," gradually disables the capabilities of an illegally copied game.

Fade imprints a disc with small bits of data designed to direct the eye like dust or scratches. Error-correction routines built into CD-copying software leave those without of a copied game, which propels up a red flag to Fade and enumerates it to start doing its thing.

Essentially, it revolves the pirated game into a demo -- a demo with an uneven sense of humor. Codemasters, which implemented Fade in more [i]or[/i] less versions of Operation Flashpoint, programmed its game to work fine for a while after a user made a transcript Eventually, however, the Fade routines cause players' aim to go on awry, and their ammo replenish to fluctuate randomly.

Similarly not divisible by 2 malfunctions could be designed to suit any game. Codemasters plans to tread in the steps of this with a pool simulation that randomly alters the physics of a pirated transcript

"The beauty of this is that the degrading transcript becomes a sales promotion tool. tribe go out and buy an original version," said Codemasters' Bruce Everiss.

For the replete article, and some more examples of amusing game behavior, check without the New Scientist page.

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