Archive of UserLand's first discussion group, started October 5, 1998.
Re: Napster Business Model
Author: Paul Snively Posted: 6/29/2000; 9:59:25 AM Topic: Napster Business Model Msg #: 18260 (In response to 18240) Prev/Next: 18259 / 18261
Wes Felter: OTOH, it is possible to make "once and for all" cracks for copy protection systems, but these would most likely be in the form of patches to program binaries, which (to my knowledge) can only be generated by a human stepping through the program until his eyes are blurry.What I'm driving at is that once you have the crypto crack, getting at the "guts" that you need to change to do the once-and-for-all patch becomes much, much easier, and yes, I'm definitely thinking by analogy with software copy protection schemes, which went the way of the dodo in the end precisely because once they had been cracked once, generalizing the crack was far more straightforward than altering the protection in some way that made the crack no longer work.
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