#copyprotection — Public Fediverse posts

🚨 ALERT: A thrilling 11-minute journey into the heart of Go's "noCopy" struct—spoiler, it's just a couple of empty methods with misleading names. 🎩🔍 Who knew Go's idea of copy protection was a field trip to the land of no-ops? 😂 But hey, if struct copying keeps you up at night, this is your bedtime story. 🛌📖
https://func25.dev/posts/go-sync-nocopy/ #GoLang #noCopy #structs #programming #copyProtection #HackerNews #HackerNews #ngated

Nur noch schnell ein paar AAX Audible Dateien knacken... damit der Tag nicht ZU unproduktiv wird. Sharing is caring! 😎 😉

#Audible #CopyProtection #Kopierschutz #Hörbücher #AudioBooks #Piracy #FFMPEG

You desperately want to play a classic version of SimCity for the IBM-PC or Commodore Amiga, but you don't want to use these ugly and unreadable, red copy protection sheets?! - Fear not! Here's a way better version of those "All Time High Scores" in clean black & white!

https://archive.org/details/simcity_high-scores

Have fun! 😉

#SimCity #CopyProtection #Maxis #Retro #RetroGaming #FloppyDisk #Diskette #90s #90er #Gaming #PCGaming #Amiga #Commodore

Art of Cracking at X 2026 Explains C64 Copy Protection
#Commodore64 #C64 #FairlightTV #PontusBerg #ArtOfCracking #X2026 #RetroComputing #C64Scene #CopyProtection #8BitComputing
https://theoasisbbs.com/art-of-cracking-at-x-2026-explains-c64-copy-protection/?fsp_sid=9092

@duckz @whatkatiediduk @EUCommission It's because #Google incentivizes using #GooglePlay and it's #API|s for everythibg from #AccountLogin, #CopyProtection / #DRM & #InAppPutchases to #PushNotifications!

- Breaking Vanilla-#AOSP - compatibility is not an accident but intentional side-effect…

My virtual Amiga 500 has very strict views concerning floppy disks and their copy protection! 😎 :clippy: 😉

- Running SpaceQuest straight from the ADF disk image: "Go. Fuck. Yourself!"
- Running SpaceQuest from the same KryoFlux stream, but using the CT-RAW disk image: "MY FRIEND!!!"

Download-Link: https://archive.org/details/sq1_amiga

#SpaceQuest #Amiga #CopyProtection #WinUAE #Commodore #Emulation #FloppyDisk #Diskette #RetroGaming #80s #80er #SierraOnline

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

Trying to make digital files uncopyable is like trying to make water not wet.
-- Bruce Schneier (Wired News (Sep, 07, 2006))

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #BruceSchneier #CopyProtection

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Panopainting #Protest #MarchForOurLives #Florida

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

@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

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

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

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

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