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Re:Sega Saturn CD Cracked after 20 Years by shmerl on Monday July 11, 2016 @08:00PM (#12075729)
Amazing work. Also highlights how paranoid DRM proponents often are going to such lengths to cripple the hardware.

Breaking DRM is like finding a cure for insanity ;)

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Re:Sega Saturn CD Cracked after 20 Years by quakeguy on Monday July 11, 2016 @08:07PM (#12075758)
"Breaking DRM is like finding a cure for insanity ;)"

Well said.

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Re:Sega Saturn CD Cracked after 20 Years by lunchTime42 on Tuesday July 12, 2016 @06:59AM (#12078051)
Remeber those Arcade Game-Memory manufactured into the battery? You had to break the battery and (suppossedly) cut the powersupply to get to them.

Isane.

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Re:Sega Saturn CD Cracked after 20 Years by shabble on Tuesday July 12, 2016 @10:34AM (#12079332)
Are you thinking of Suicide Batteries?[1]

IIRC, tehy're a major hindrance to people who want to legitimately restore old arcade/pinball machines, rather than just grabbing a cracked rom.

[1] http://www.arcadecollecting.com/dead/

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Re:Sega Saturn CD Cracked after 20 Years by lunchTime42 on Thursday July 14, 2016 @12:06PM (#12094984)
Yes, what a wonderfull example of corpoorate paranoia. They are out there- the enemy, the other tribesman and there psychopaths- out to get me, my fortress, my product for cheap- but i will show it to them, i shall leave no mark upon this world, for which i shall be remembered.

Ten layers of tinfoil can capture pirate-bullets.

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