PATCH: ntoskrnl.exe

[Carlos Lozano]

El mar, 17 de feb de 2004, a las 12:30, Mike Hearn escribio:
> On Mon, 16 Feb 2004 20:33:12 +0100, Marcus Meissner wrote:
> > As of working, in Need for Speed v4 from Electronic Arts I now see the SafeDisc[tm]
> > Splashscreen, then it is seeking on the CD pretty heavily, then the program terminates.
> 
> For the record (we already discussed this a bit on IRC) this is probably
> SafeDisc taking seek-time profiles from the CD drive. SafeDiscs contain
> certain blocks in unusual widely-spaced ordering that is not possible to
> recreate using standard CD burners. By reading each block in turn and
> checking that the seek times are high enough they can verify the CD has
> not been copied using consumer-grade equipment.

There are several safedisc versions. What you are saying is applied
to safedisc 2.6 and newer, but it is not necessary for safedisc 1.x
or 2.0.

Regards,
Carlos.

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