Encryption chip will end piracy, open markets, says Bushnell
Found on Games Industry on Sunday, 25 May 2008
Speaking at yesterday's Wedbush Morgan Securities annual Management Access Conference, the Atari founder suggested that game piracy will soon be a thing of the past thanks to a new chip.
"What that says is that in the games business we will be able to encrypt with an absolutely verifiable private key in the encryption world - which is uncrackable by people on the internet and by giving away passwords - which will allow for a huge market to develop in some of the areas where piracy has been a real problem."
"The TPM will, in fact, absolutely stop piracy of gameplay."
Pardon me if I laugh. Those "people on the internet" are pretty resourceful and talented. Remember defeating CD protection by pressing the Shift key? Or with a black marker? There's DeCSS too. AACS and Blueray have been defeated too. Don't forget the whole console chip modding scene. So I'm tempted to say that TPM will stop nothing.