Copy protection

Tim Schmidt timschmidt at gmail.com
Fri Oct 6 04:03:41 CDT 2006


On 10/6/06, Kai Blin <kai.blin at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Friday 06 October 2006 10:19, Tim Schmidt wrote:
>
> > Again, works for me.  I believe the only part missing for this case is
> > the simulation.  Of course, there's the added possibility that apps
> > will go mucking about with data other apps care about, in which case a
> > per-executable simulated device would be best.
>
> Wouldn't that break on Windows, too? If I have have two apps that muck about
> in my mbr, I expect them both to work, so they better do whatever they do in
> a sane way. I don't see how this would be different for a simulated drive.

Yeah.  you're right.  I just don't trust every app that mucks about
with the MBR to be courteous and correct ;)

--tim



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