[mr.miyagi]

copy and pasted from shacknews....hackers beware, ooooooooooooooo

Encryption Chip Will End Piracy, Says Atari Founder

by Aaron Linde May 23, 2008 3:57pm CST tags: PC Gaming, Piracy
At yesterday's Wedbush Morgan Securities conference, Atari founder Nolan Bushnell claimed that a stealth encryption chip will "absolutely stop piracy of [PC] gameplay." "There is a stealth encryption chip called a TPM that is going on the motherboards of most of the computers that are coming out now," explained Bushnell, according to a GamesIndustry report.
"What that says is that in the games business we will be able to encrypt with an absolutely verifiable private key in the encryption world--which is uncrackable by people on the internet and by giving away passwords--which will allow for a huge market to develop in some of the areas where piracy has been a real problem."
The founder went on to suggest that though movie and music piracy will likely continue unabated, game markets made previously inaccessible due to piracy issues will begin to flourish as the chip's install base grows.
"Games are a different thing, because games are so integrated with the code. The TPM will, in fact, absolutely stop piracy of gameplay," Bushnell noted. "As soon as the installed base of the TPM hardware chip gets large enough, we will start to see revenues coming from Asia and India at a time when before it didn't make sense."

[geRV]

Its good that he informed everyone of this, now all it takes is a soldering iron and knowing what chip to remove.

Sounds more like bs though.

[CoMaToSe]

maybe there is no chip, and he's hoping pirates will start soldering random chips on their PCs

[geRV]

Appaently tis been tried in the past but if companies were to incorperate it on their motherboards their sales would go down the shitter. Unless it becomes an industry standard its not gonna happen.

[Short Hand]

Just like Microsoft saying the X-Box was "uncrackable"... 2 weeks after launch the pirating community turned a multi-million dollar effort by Microsoft into a pile of steaming shit.

[elstatec]

no such thing as uncrackable.

all these drm things on games just put you off buying the games let alone downloading them as you dont want all this shit other than the game to be installed on your pc.

let alone hardware.


but then again this is coming from Atari - no one buys or downloads their games.