I very much doubt that disc protections or any kind of protections are even relevant when talking about Microsoft's profits. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/ouch.gif" alt="" />
How do they get their software to the intended audience without disc protection? How come everyone else needs disc prot' and they don't. You have to wonder about this.
If it was up to me, I would get all the publishers and put them in a big bag, and give it a good shaking!
So we all have to be punished along with the pirates (not that disc prot' represent a problem to them)? That's hardly fair, is it. That's like nuking a country to eliminate a pocket of resistance there. You will always have copies floating about, this will never stop, as no protection can be made to achieve total control. The more complex the protection, the more resources it will use, the more monitoring it will perform, and the more money it will cost the developers to use it. I wonder how much it cost Larian for starforce???
