Amazon temporarily gags Spore critics, deletes and restores all customer reviews

Re:Amazon temporarily gags Spore critics, deletes and restor... by zandorg on Friday September 12, 2008 @10:25PM (#302882)

With RSA encryption in the CPU, you can definitely enforce DRM. Just decrypt the game's code on the fly in a DRM-enabled CPU. The only way to break the code is to get the RSA key, or spend year(s) hacking the key.

I believe the Xbox works this way.

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Re:Amazon temporarily gags Spore critics, deletes and restor... by river_styx on Friday September 12, 2008 @11:04PM (#302901)

Only one person has to hack the key. Then he/she can distribute either the key or the decrypted content to everyone else. This is exactly why DRM will never work.

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Re:Amazon temporarily gags Spore critics, deletes and restor... by DenisM on Friday September 12, 2008 @11:25PM (#302910)

Have you noticed that XBox 360 is not cracked (short of one batch that had leaky DVD drives)?

It's not a problem to create a real pain in the ass for the pirates. The problem is to avoid creating real pain in the ass for normal users and your own developers at the same time.

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