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Speaking at yesterday's Wedbush Morgan Securities annual Management Access Conference, the Atari founder suggested that game piracy will soon be a thing of the past thanks to a new chip.

"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," he pointed out
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Source: Gamesindustry

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BlueMak

I haven't heard a more stupid statement in a while.
Still, I wonder, if the piracy truly ends...will that means the prices for games will fall dramaticaly, or at all?...lol

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Mousey

intel was going to incorporate anti-cheating technology into 975x but it never happened.
Nobody will agree to this methinks.

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YAYitsAndrew

If this chip can be used to guarantee secure connections in other places that consumers would find useful, like banking or online shopping, then I don't see why it wouldn't make its way onto every motherboard.

Once it's there, stealing games with cracks and isos will become too hard for the average person. I would think that theft is still possible, but the work arounds would instead focus on the bios or a hardware modification. Either of those should sufficiently scare off a large number of casual pirates.

Game prices won't go down, mostly because they haven't gone up as a response to piracy. The real response to piracy on PC's has been developers not developing for the PC.

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"It is because the resistance to paying for copyrighted material, although often characterized as arising from a supposed technical burden or principled concern for the public interest, arises rather from exactly the same segment of the brain that is dominant in shoplifters."
- Mark Helprin, Digital Barbarism

So you think piracy isn't hurting anyone?
www.yayitsandrew.com

BlueMak

I bet Mousey's computer that this is not going to work as an anti piracy tool.

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The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others(Bertrand Russell)"You go into Afghanistan, you got guys who slap women around for five years because they didn't wear a veil,You know, guys like that ain't got no manhood left anyway. So it's a hell of a lot of fun to shoot them." - Lt. Gen. James N. Mattis
This is slavery, not to speak one's thought. [Euripides-The Phoenician Women (c.411-409 B.C.)] http://www.macedonia.info/FALLACIESANDFACTS.htm Sic semper tyrannis.

YAYitsAndrew

You're on! I bet Zardon's monitors.

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"It is because the resistance to paying for copyrighted material, although often characterized as arising from a supposed technical burden or principled concern for the public interest, arises rather from exactly the same segment of the brain that is dominant in shoplifters."
- Mark Helprin, Digital Barbarism

So you think piracy isn't hurting anyone?
www.yayitsandrew.com

Mousey

easy now

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