copy protection - was: Re: Is it time for playing games on WINE?

[Carlos Lozano]

> > 
> > Why about trying to get this driver working on top of current ntdll ?
> > All drivers accesses should pass by kernel calls no ?
> 
> In the perfect world, yes.. but this is not how most copy protections
> do it.
> 
> Using the copy protection's driver directly will IMHO not be possible
> without emulating certain things for the driver and this is probably
> also illegal in respect to the DMCA. (lying to the kernel mode driver
> is kind of the same as lying to the user-mode part of the protection,
> no?!)

If it should be true (sure that it isn't ;), i don't know why ms doesn't 
includes secdrv.sys in the core, and calls it from ntdll, what should
be the end of wine running native applications ;)

Regards,
Carlos.

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