#copyprotection — Public Fediverse posts

We are becoming a patron economy. In the future, content creation will be increasingly supported by the subsidy of patrons.

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2011/03/new-patron-economy-part-1

#economy #PatronEconomy #CopyProtection #meetings #eventprofs

Befreie gerade ein paar mehr meiner selbst gekauften Audible Hörbücher von ihrem Kopierschutz. Mit Hillfe von FFMPEG geht's vom geschützten AAX-Container ins freie MP3- und M4A-Format und danach auf meine Sicherungsplatte. Man sollte sich niemals auf die Cloud verlassen und immer lokale Backups erstellen! 😉

#Audible #AudioBook #Hörbuch #Medien #Backup #Cloud #CopyProtection #Crack #ffmpeg

Befreie gerade ein paar mehr meiner selbst gekauften Audible Hörbücher von ihrem Kopierschutz. Mit Hillfe von FFMPEG geht's vom geschützten AAX-Container ins freie MP3- und M4A-Format und danach auf meine Sicherungsplatte. Man sollte sich niemals auf die Cloud verlassen und immer lokale Backups erstellen! 😉

#Audible #AudioBook #Hörbuch #Medien #Backup #Cloud #CopyProtection #Crack #ffmpeg

Befreie gerade ein paar mehr meiner selbst gekauften Audible Hörbücher von ihrem Kopierschutz. Mit Hillfe von FFMPEG geht's vom geschützten AAX-Container ins freie MP3- und M4A-Format und danach auf meine Sicherungsplatte. Man sollte sich niemals auf die Cloud verlassen und immer lokale Backups erstellen! 😉

#Audible #AudioBook #Hörbuch #Medien #Backup #Cloud #CopyProtection #Crack #ffmpeg

Befreie gerade ein paar mehr meiner selbst gekauften Audible Hörbücher von ihrem Kopierschutz. Mit Hillfe von FFMPEG geht's vom geschützten AAX-Container ins freie MP3- und M4A-Format und danach auf meine Sicherungsplatte. Man sollte sich niemals auf die Cloud verlassen und immer lokale Backups erstellen! 😉

#Audible #AudioBook #Hörbuch #Medien #Backup #Cloud #CopyProtection #Crack #ffmpeg

@petko That problem also persists for physical media:

Even if one were to legally buy the DVD or blu-ray of CyberSix, one would still have the problem that it won't play outside the region it was released in.

- So >85% of all people cannot legally play the blu-ray version of CyberSix.

- OFC that problem doesn't apply to those that ~obtained~ it elsewhere...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blu-ray#Region_codes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD_region_code

#CyberSix #CopyProtection #RegionCoding #Contentmafia #Enshittification #DRM

👾 Gather 'round, nerds, for the most thrilling bedtime story about C64 copy protection. This epic saga spans SIX volumes—because who doesn't love a good dissertation on floppy drive mechanics? 😴 Prepare to have your mind blown by the riveting adventures of the 1541 Drive, or maybe just take a nap instead. 💤
https://www.commodoregames.net/copyprotection/ #C64Stories #CopyProtection #FloppyDrive #RetroGaming #BedtimeNerds #HackerNews #ngated

C64 Copy Protection

https://www.commodoregames.net/copyprotection/

#HackerNews #C64 #Copy #Protection #CommodoreGaming #RetroGaming #CopyProtection #TechHistory

#CopyProtection: nice try #VCR industrie

I just got this new game called "Grand Monster Slam" for the Commodore Amiga and, initially, I had some issues dumping the -copy protected- floppy disk.
Luckily, after some tinkering, I finally got it working using the WinUAE 6.0.1 emulator and a virtual Amiga A500. This actually looks pretty sweet! 😜

#Amiga #Commodore #RetroGaming #RetroGames #80s #Retro #90s #WinUAE #Emulation #CopyProtection

We are becoming a patron economy. In the future, content creation will be increasingly supported by the subsidy of patrons.

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2011/03/new-patron-economy-part-1

#economy #PatronEconomy #CopyProtection #meetings #eventprofs

Thanks to a new upload by "lemonhead" and "Digitoxin", I could finally complete my personal floppy disk collection of the 1987 game "Larry Leisure Suit" for the IBM-PC, Version 1.0.

This game was copy protected, so it's always neat to have all kinds of disk image formats available. I just dumped and added my own TeleDisk image. It works!

If you're curious: Here's Digitoxin's collection of "Sierra On-Line" titles:
https://archive.org/details/20220303_20220303_0527

This. Is. AWESOME! Enjoy! 😉

#RetroComputing #LarryLeisureSuit #LLS #MSDOS #DOSGaming #PCGaming #80s #CopyProtection #FloppyDisk #Diskette #86Box #Emulation #TeleDisk

Thanks to a new upload by "lemonhead" and "Digitoxin", I could finally complete my personal floppy disk collection of the 1987 game "Larry Leisure Suit" for the IBM-PC, Version 1.0.

This game was copy protected, so it's always neat to have all kinds of disk image formats available. I just dumped and added my own TeleDisk image. It works!

If you're curious: Here's Digitoxin's collection of "Sierra On-Line" titles:
https://archive.org/details/20220303_20220303_0527

This. Is. AWESOME! Enjoy! 😉

#RetroComputing #LarryLeisureSuit #LLS #MSDOS #DOSGaming #PCGaming #80s #CopyProtection #FloppyDisk #Diskette #86Box #Emulation #TeleDisk

Bought a #BlueRay player off of amazon. It just arrived and I'm kinda surprised that right within the included manual it tells one to download AnyDVD in case one of your BlueRays can't be played.
It mentions AnyDVD a total of 3 times. It even says it is a protection software ("Schutzsoftware").

So are BD Drive manufacturers now also done with the #copyprotection bullshit?!?

We are becoming a patron economy. In the future, content creation will be increasingly supported by the subsidy of patrons.

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2011/03/new-patron-economy-part-1

#economy #PatronEconomy #CopyProtection #meetings #eventprofs

Back in 1986 / '87, when I personally was still in Kindergarten, Two Guy from Andromeda created a fantastic graphic adventure game called "Space Quest". It became an instant hit and spawned several sequels.

Here's the original "Space Quest - Chapter I - The Sarien Encounter", Version 1.2 for Commodore Amiga. Including full KryoFlux streams, CT RAW and ADF disk images. Have fun!

https://archive.org/details/sq1_amiga

#RetroGaming #RetroGames #Amiga #SierraOnline #SpaceQuest #GraphicAdventure #CopyProtection #KryoFlux #FloppyDisk

After all this time, SimCity still is one of my favourite video games ever. And after all these years of collecting, I am still finding new stuff!

Today, I just came across a pristine copy protected disk image of SimCity v1.1 for the Amiga. That one will happily run the game without the need to get any codes from the manual. Also today, I found a slightly more modern version of the Terrain Editor documentation, where they removed the instructions for ATARI systems. "Imho" an interesting bit of gaming history!

Yep, I guess I'm a nerd. 😜

#SimCity #Amiga #Commodore #RetroGaming #RetroGames #CopyProtection #FloppyDisk #Diskette #Kopierschutz #Workbench

After all this time, SimCity still is one of my favourite video games ever. And after all these years of collecting, I am still finding new stuff!

Today, I just came across a pristine copy protected disk image of SimCity v1.1 for the Amiga. That one will happily run the game without the need to get any codes from the manual. Also today, I found a slightly more modern version of the Terrain Editor documentation, where they removed the instructions for ATARI systems. "Imho" an interesting bit of gaming history!

Yep, I guess I'm a nerd. 😜

#SimCity #Amiga #Commodore #RetroGaming #RetroGames #CopyProtection #FloppyDisk #Diskette #Kopierschutz #Workbench

Well, considering this is my very first physical Amiga diskette with a full-on copy protection, everything went way better than expected. Easy peasy!

I managed to extract a perfect KryoFlux stream from the protected disk and its copy protection tracks! Also, the resulting "CT RAW" disk image plays perfectly fine in the latest WinUAE Amiga emulator. Great success! 😜

Have fun:
https://archive.org/details/ll1_amiga
https://archive.org/details/ll1_amiga_box

#LeisureSuitLarry #SierraOnline #Amiga #WinUAE #emulation #RetroGaming #RetroGames #KryoFlux #InternetArchive #FloppyDisk #CopyProtection

Well, considering this is my very first physical Amiga diskette with a full-on copy protection, everything went way better than expected. Easy peasy!

I managed to extract a perfect KryoFlux stream from the protected disk and its copy protection tracks! Also, the resulting "CT RAW" disk image plays perfectly fine in the latest WinUAE Amiga emulator. Great success! 😜

Have fun:
https://archive.org/details/ll1_amiga
https://archive.org/details/ll1_amiga_box

#LeisureSuitLarry #SierraOnline #Amiga #WinUAE #emulation #RetroGaming #RetroGames #KryoFlux #InternetArchive #FloppyDisk #CopyProtection

When it comes to my retro games collection, I am usually trying to find every variant and every available version of a game. Sometimes, this is pretty easy. For games like "Space Quest I - The Sarien Encounter", it is not.

I just added Version 2.2, Interpreter 2.426, 3.5" / 720K as a copy protected TeleDisk disk image. It works!

#RetroGaming #DOSGaming #RetroGames #DOSGames #SpaceQuest #FloppyDisk #KryoFlux #Emualtion #86Box #SierraOnline #CopyProtection #TeleDisk #Preservation

Mr Wint’s Investigation Into The Games: Winter Edition’s Copy Protection
This is a deep one. As linked by one for the books over on Metafilter, a GitHub user with the username MrWint was looking at the code of the Olympics-like DOS minigame collection "The Games: Winter Edition." They wondered why it
https://setsideb.com/mr-wints-investigation-into-the-games-winter-editions-copy-protection/
#retro #copyprotection #dos #MrWint #retro #reverseengineering #TheGamesWinterEdition #USGold

Mr Wint’s Investigation Into The Games: Winter Edition’s Copy Protection
This is a deep one. As linked by one for the books over on Metafilter, a GitHub user with the username MrWint was looking at the code of the Olympics-like DOS minigame collection "The Games: Winter Edition." They wondered why it
https://setsideb.com/mr-wints-investigation-into-the-games-winter-editions-copy-protection/
#retro #copyprotection #dos #MrWint #retro #reverseengineering #TheGamesWinterEdition #USGold

Deep dive into how DOS games do copy protection by making themselves unwinnable

https://mrwint.github.io/winter/writeup/writeup.html

#HackerNews #DOSGames #CopyProtection #UnwinnableGaming #GamePreservation #RetroGaming

DRM is good for No One

DRM is good for No One

DRM is good for No One

I have some wonderful ebooks I can read them without any hitches on my bigger Androids
However on this small one Amazon Kindle refuses to download the books thus refuses to let me read them

#DRM #Amazon #Kindle #Prime #book #ebook #copyprotection

This one required a bit of research, but I finally managed to get it working:

Jurassic Park for DOS is famous for its on-disk copy protection, so I uploaded a good variety of disk image formats: KryoFlux, TeleDisk, MFM, 86F. All tested and confirmed working on #86Box v4.2.1.

https://archive.org/details/jurassic_park_dos/

Have fun with the dinos!

#RetroGaming #JurassicPark #MSDOS #CopyProtection #KryoFlux

That's s so cool! I had always wanted to add "Krusty's Fun House" for MS-DOS to my retro collection. I've had the floppy disk for years (thanks flyers_80!), but I could never find the correct manual to answer all those pesky copy protection questions.

Tonight I found out, there's a beautiful PDF version of the correct manual within the current eXoDOS collection. All of a sudden, the problem is solved and I can finally play the game! Yay!

If you want it, here's the original disk image, uploaded by flyers_80 in 2017: https://archive.org/details/KrustysFunHouseAcclaim199335Kryoflux.7z

#Simpsons #MSDOS #RetroGaming #CopyProtection #eXoDOS #86Box #Emulation #KryoFlux

Hab grad mal vergeblich versucht, ein Amiga Spiel von IPF ins freie ADF Imageformat umzuwandeln. Kopierschutz sagt "NEIN".

#Amiga #WinUAE #Kopierschutz #CopyProtection #Emulation #FloppyDisk

Hab grad mal vergeblich versucht, ein Amiga Spiel von IPF ins freie ADF Imageformat umzuwandeln. Kopierschutz sagt "NEIN".

#Amiga #WinUAE #Kopierschutz #CopyProtection #Emulation #FloppyDisk

We are becoming a patron economy. In the future, content creation will be increasingly supported by the subsidy of patrons.

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2011/03/new-patron-economy-part-1

#economy #PatronEconomy #CopyProtection #meetings #eventprofs

Interesting pack-in copy protection code sheet for the cassette version of the racing game "Turbo 64" for the Commodore 64. I found the box on my shelf this morning.

#C64 #Commodore64 #Commodore #retrogaming #retrogames #retrogamer #games #gamers #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #copyprotection #cassette #Eurosoft #gameboxes #photo #nostalgia #vintage

@pluralistic
A theory of change [for the #EU, and the #GlobalSouth]: Ditch #IPlaws and #copyprotection, and set #interoperability free!!

"America's robust GDP figures are a mirage, artificially buoyed up by the monopoly rents extracted by #USBigTech, who prey on Americans AND foreigners.
But foreigners don't have to tolerate this nonsense. Governments around the world signed up to protect giant American companies from small domestic competitors (from local app stores—for phones, games consoles, and IoT gadgets—to local printer cartridge remanufacturers) on the promise of tariff-free access to US markets. With #Trump imposing tariffs will-ye or nill-ye on America's trading partners large and small, there is no reason to go on delivering rents to US Big Tech."

We are becoming a patron economy. In the future, content creation will be increasingly supported by the subsidy of patrons.

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2011/03/the-new-patron-economy-and-its-impact-on-events-part-1

#economy #PatronEconomy #CopyProtection #meetings #eventprofs

Thanks to Digitoxin and the generosity of the retro gaming community, we finally have working MFM disk images of the legendary "Book Club" version of Lemmings - perfectly compatible with the 86Box emulator! This version from 1991 includes a few very unique and tricky levels. An awesome addition to game preservation!

Here's Digitoxin's Psygnosis PC Floppy Disk Image Collection:
https://archive.org/details/20230505_20230505_0859

Have fun!

#RetroGaming #Lemmings #CopyProtection #86Box #Preservation #FloppyDisk #InternetArchive

We are becoming a patron economy. In the future, content creation will be increasingly supported by the subsidy of patrons.

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2011/03/the-new-patron-economy-and-its-impact-on-events-part-1

#economy #PatronEconomy #CopyProtection #meetings #eventprofs

PC Floppy Copy Protection: Vault Corporation Prolok https://hackaday.com/2024/10/11/pc-floppy-copy-protection-vault-corporation-prolok/ #Retrocomputing #copyprotection #softwarepiracy #Prolok

PC Floppy Copy Protection: Vault Corporation Prolok - In the 2020s we’re used to software being readily accessible, and often free, whet... - https://hackaday.com/2024/10/11/pc-floppy-copy-protection-vault-corporation-prolok/ #retrocomputing #copyprotection #softwarepiracy #prolok

We are becoming a patron economy. In the future, content creation will be increasingly supported by the subsidy of patrons.

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2011/03/the-new-patron-economy-and-its-impact-on-events-part-1

#economy #PatronEconomy #CopyProtection #meetings #eventprofs

Creating TeleDisk images for a few more copy protected DOS games. Looks like there are some weird sector sizes! Let's hope they will work as intended.

#RetroGaming #CopyProtection #TeleDisk #MSDOS #86Box #Emulation

If you like to play the original Lemmings for MS-DOS, here's a working disk image. Using the latest 86Box v4.2, the .TD0 image is 100% accepted as a protected key disk. Have fun!

https://archive.org/details/lemmings_kryoflux

#Lemmings #KryoFlux #TeleDisk #CopyProtection #86Box #MSDOS

Mmmh... I just spent the last two hours trying to convert a KryoFlux stream of the original "SpaceQuest I" into a disk image working within 86Box.

So far, it's still complaining. 😞

#RetroGaming #CopyProtection #MSDOS #TeleDisk #Emulation

We are becoming a patron economy. In the future, content creation will be increasingly supported by the subsidy of patrons.

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2011/03/the-new-patron-economy-and-its-impact-on-events-part-1

#economy #PatronEconomy #CopyProtection #meetings #eventprofs

We are becoming a patron economy. In the future, content creation will be increasingly supported by the subsidy of patrons.

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2011/03/the-new-patron-economy-and-its-impact-on-events-part-1

#economy #PatronEconomy #CopyProtection #meetings #eventprofs

We are becoming a patron economy. In the future, content creation will be increasingly supported by the subsidy of patrons.

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2011/03/the-new-patron-economy-and-its-impact-on-events-part-1

#economy #PatronEconomy #CopyProtection #meetings #eventprofs

We are becoming a patron economy. In the future, content creation will be increasingly supported by the subsidy of patrons.

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2011/03/the-new-patron-economy-and-its-impact-on-events-part-1

#economy #PatronEconomy #CopyProtection #meetings #eventprofs

As mentioned before, I've recently switched from PCem to 86Box for PC emulation. Sure, it does feel a bit more modern and versatile, but there's one specific feature I only found out about 30 minutes ago: 86Box can run copy-protected floppy disks directly from TeleDisk images! This might not work anywhere, but for some games, it is a game changer!

- Older, heavily copy-protected titles like Grand Prix Circuit from 1988 are now finally working within an emulator!

- Jurassic Park lets you finally install to Drive [C] without cracking the entire installer. It just works now!

- Somehow I can even use the Lemmings key disk and it works without any modification! This is awesome!

#RetroGaming #86Box #TeleDisk #CopyProtection #Emulation

We are becoming a patron economy. In the future, content creation will be increasingly supported by the subsidy of patrons.

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2011/03/the-new-patron-economy-and-its-impact-on-events-part-1

#economy #PatronEconomy #CopyProtection #meetings #eventprofs

On various #CopyProtection schemes:

"Floppy Copy Classics", Tedium (https://tedium.co/2022/11/16/copy-protection-scheme-history/).

#Piracy #Games #ComputerGames #OldSkool #Copy #DontCopyThatFloppy #DigitalPiracy

The Ultimate Commodore 1541 Drive Talk: A Deep Dive Into Disks, Controllers, And Much More - When we think of retrocomputing, it’s very often the computers themselves that get... - https://hackaday.com/2021/09/19/the-ultimate-commodore-1541-drive-talk-a-deep-dive-into-disks-controllers-and-much-more/ #floppydrivecontroller #retrocomputing #copyprotection #6502processor #commodore1541 #commodore1571 #commodore64 #floppydrive #floppydisk

#ModernVintageGamer gives a brief introduction into the early days of #DRM in the form of #codewheels, manual word challenges, #sectorCopying, #fuzzyBits and other forms of #copyProtection and how #FTLGames' #DungeonMaster kept the copy protection crackers / #softwarePirates at bay for about a year: https://youtu.be/VheNpiSZxf0