Sure, the right man with an electron microscope and a silicon fab plant may be able to in theory, but not many hackers have those in their bedrooms!jam wrote:If man can build it, man can also break it.bitplane wrote: It's called trusted computing, and it will kill all indie development and open source.
<rant>Back on the subject of "piracy", most copyright violators aren't paying for anything period. There are the people who share and swap games like schoolboys do with porn mags, there are hoarders who never play games and just act like stamp collectors, then you've got the cheap people who just want free entertainment. Stop copying and most people will find entertainment elsewhere, they'll probably just watch more television
I buy games because 1) I can afford to, 2) I like the nice shiny box on my shelf, and 3) because I like to support the things I love. I don't do it out of guilt or because I believe copyright violation is a sin and I harbour no more hatred towards software "pirates". The term "piracy" annoys me, a violation of a civil contract between society and content owners is the equivalent of spitting on the floor or smoking in a non-smoking area, not theft and murder. Scrumping is far worse than copying games!
In fact, it saddens me to see fat teenagers saving all their money so they can spend their sad existences sat indoors feeding their game addictions. They *should* be pirating so they can spend what little money they have on a social life. The games industry is largely about selling addictive materials to children by use of peer pressure and emotional blackmail, so they have no moral highground!</rant>