SonyDADC SecuROM v5.00.01 - adds anti emulation
Posted on 02/12/03 03:13 by yates                             
SonyDADC SecuROM v5.00.01 - adds anti emulation

It has been revealed today that SecuROM v5 has just come out of developement. Sony's message to their customers is that their new enchanted version will aim to strike out emulation of their anti clone technology.

Since this is hot of the press as it were, no titles have been protected with this version yet and it is unclear of how advanced this "anti emulator shield" will be, so till then, over and out.

SecuROM(tm) Software Release News  December, 2003

Today our development team will release version 5.00.01 of the SecuROM. encryption software. The main upgrade is a new protection shield against virtual drive emulation. As you are probably aware, emulators are useful tools for making back-up copies of legally purchased original discs. Nevertheless, they can also be used to illegally use your software by emulating a disc copy or a virtual drive.

With this new version, SecuROM stays ahead of the competition with a brand new anti-emulator shield that defeats emulation software such as: Alcohol 120%, Blindwrite, Daemon Tools, GameJack, or CloneCD.

Another new feature is the addition of two new error message types that appear if SecuROM detects that your application has been started without your original disc. These messages are:

"Conflict with Disc Emulator Software detected. See www.securom.com/emulation for more details".

"Please insert the original disc instead of a backup. See www.securom.com/copy for more details".

The default wording of "Wrong Disc inserted" has been changed to: "Wrong Disc inserted. Please insert the original disc into your CD/DVD drive."

Source: CD Freaks Exclusive

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By Gabs, Tuesday 02 December 2003 03:48
Who wants to start the betting at under 1 day for this being cracked and a week before it can be emulated? Place your bets now supergrin
By Sherrif, Tuesday 02 December 2003 04:44
"As you are probably aware, emulators are useful tools for making back-up copies of legally purchased original discs. Nevertheless, they can also be used to illegally use your software by emulating a disc copy or a virtual drive."...............so what they are saying is that you, the consumer, will be treated as a pirate until further notice...............cool
By gexx, Tuesday 02 December 2003 04:58
they can kiss my ass,,,i pay for it i own it if not then maybe since we have no rights then we shouldnt buy their damn audio and cdrom ets...maybe we should stop for a couple of weeks lets see what happens to their sales,,,,
By Crabbyappleton, Tuesday 02 December 2003 04:59
Crabbyappleton"Please insert the original disc instead of a backup." puke It is extra-irritating when they use the word please. Next it will be "I'm sorry Dave...I can't do that. " D'oh!
[edited by Crabbyappleton on 02.12.2003 05:04]
By Vratar, Tuesday 02 December 2003 06:16
VratarTo me, a game backup that only runs in emulation mode is the perfect compromise to the piracy/fair-use battle. Hard(er) to give a copy to your friends and nearly impossible to sell, but you could easily use your own backup on your own computer -- the very definition of fair-use. It's just baffling that they are trying to get rid of even that now...
[edited by Vratar on 02.12.2003 06:18]
By FutureProof, Tuesday 02 December 2003 09:55
FutureProofa lot of hard, smart work goes into copy protection; some are ex-crackers, some are electronic engineers. the point is, that if they can put the glass-master pirates out of business, then good. if they can prevent the cracked ISOs from working, good. just don't interfere with my gaming devil
By DiggnSaeg, Tuesday 02 December 2003 09:56
>> [...] that defeats [CURRENT VERSIONS OF] emulation software [...] supergrin
By Hypnosis4U2NV, Tuesday 02 December 2003 10:01
Hypnosis4U2NVBack to cracking the exe files instead.. Thats defeated the Securom protections 100% of the times.. Even if its not 1:1 copy, s long as I have my backup on CD with the crack in a crack folder Im a happy camper..
By Alex T., Tuesday 02 December 2003 11:59
I buy all my games and software. I hate being treated like a criminal.
By salil, Tuesday 02 December 2003 12:02
sounds to me liek they cant do anything about plextor premium's ability to pwn securom, so they pick on something easier, emulation Smilie good, keep those idiots busy while i 1:1 all my retails with my plex hahaha
By spjb, Tuesday 02 December 2003 22:20
spjbI can't beleive this [bs]. This only fuels online piracy with people unwrap the new protections and distribute more copies online. FLT will probably get it done first ;p then help us out with emulating it. :P ps. nothing's un-emulatable. nothing.
By c0re, Wednesday 03 December 2003 03:53
only reason i used emulated cd-roms was cause i owned the game 'legally' and did not feel it was neccessary to have the slow loading cumbersome cd in the drive just to 'unlock' the game that was already sitting there in my hd. the only time the cdrom belongs in the drive is when its contents are being installed. whats lame is that the people who pirate the shit get off scott free cause they dont even have to use an emulated rom (or rather cant) they just use the included crack and play away. do us legal owners have to revert to such methods now? puke
By Crabbyappleton, Wednesday 03 December 2003 05:49
Crabbyappleton"the only time the cdrom belongs in the drive is when its contents are being installed." Amen to that! Smilie
By einszweidrei, Saturday 06 December 2003 21:35
einszweidreiDon't buy SONY. Period. YOU finance this shit with YOUR money when you buy SONY products.
By the jackal (guest), Thursday 29 November 2007 23:54
They can all go and kiss my ass. I enjoy gaming and enjoy cracked copies. Why the fuck should i go and spend £30 on a game when the friends of the net can give it to us for free. You will never ever beat us...we will come back stronger. puke
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