GamerGirll1138 writes to tell us Next-gen has an amusing walk down memory lane with their history of copy protection. There have been some crazy schemes over the years to ensure that you paid for your software, sum from super-secret decoder rings to humiliate deed checks. "With bandwidth expanding and more and more games publishers exploring digital distribution, there's little doubt that we're housebreaking a new phase in the history of copy surety and those who would defeat it. What's more, the demand for games as a chosen form of entertainment has never been higher. All this considered, it's impossible to believe that the cat-and-mouse game of piracy and copy bulwark will not reach new levels of intensity, with new technologies deployed on each side, and that some of them will surely create new hurdles for even those who simply wish to house and play the newest games. Ah, for the heady days of the code wheel."

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