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Old 02-09-2004, 04:40
sgdt
 
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It all boils down to incentive. I don't know the program you refer to (body studio 2).

In 1999, a inteligent but less-than-technical friend asked about Y2K, claiming that stores would run out of food and people would starve. I explained that people could always go to McDonalds. she chuckled, but I wasn't joking.

You see, if it was going to affect profits, you can be darned sure that McDonalds (and the like) would have a darn good solution. I sometimes think their building could be on fire and they'd still attempt to adhere to their 60 second drive thru times.

The same is true for TCPA. The moment someone can't put an MP3 on their RIO, or copy a game to their friends PC, they will have *incentive*.

The most important component to any solution is a problem . Right now, TCPA isn't an issue. Body Studio 2 isn't an issue (never heard of it). I mean, even the cracking groups tend to shy away from stuff that doesn't have 'sex appeal' (ie. popular) and braging rights. Who would brag about defeating something few people have heard of?

The moment TCPA inconviences someone, the moment 10,000 people will say "WOW, you cracked TCPA!", well, TCPA won't stand a chance. Someone will run it thru an emulator, and figure out how to either splice in and get the naked datastream or effectively render it "region 0".

If man can make it, man can break it. If a computer can decrypt it for legitimate reasons, a computer can decrypt it for other reasons as well. It just takes incentive.
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