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LGP Introduces Linux Game Copy Protection
Jun 24, 2008, 16 :30 UTC (2 Talkback[s]) (6803 reads)

(Other stories by Michael Larabel)

[ Thanks to Michael Larabel for this link. ]

"For seven years Linux Game Publishing has been selling their Linux-ported games with no form of copy protection on their CD/DVDs, but beginning with their forthcoming port of Sacred: Gold that will be changed. Linux Game Publishing has developed their own Internet-based game copy protection system for Linux, and in this article we have more details on this scheme as well as their motives behind this work.

"LGP's new copy protection system isn't a kernel module that needs to be loaded or any CD/DVD-embedded protection like StarForce..."

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I can't be certain, but this seems m ...   Well, the description doesn't look TOO intrusi   
Charles Hixson
Jun 24, 2008, 21:53:38
 
 Even games that aren't copy-protect ...   Re: Well, the description doesn't look TOO int   
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