No. I read it so it must be true.

[ Also a lot of our current games need multiplayer servers to even allow you to experience them properly so that's another problem right there. Relying on piracy or companies being generous with GOG releases is never going to work so the problem is a lot bigger than whatever the current DRM is doing.

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Talking about the video game industry being terrible at archiving games, apparently Sega have lost the original files to Panzer Dragoon saga. It seems unlikely that they'll ever be a re-release which is a damn shame.

In 1996, Taito announced that they lost the original source code.

Just under eighteen months. Not bad, but Sky are still pissing themselves.

I have no idea what Sky has to do with DRM on videogames being cracked.

Sky's encryption hasn't been broken yet.

How come there are all these Chinese boxes going round that cost like £70 or something and have all the Sky stuff on them (and loads else) except the HD channels? (HD encryption is not cracked I believe?)

I don't have one because I don't watch telly, but I know of several people who have availed themselves of one from the local chap who supplies such things.

If they're like the Chinese boxes my uncle almost bought from a shady bloke down the street they are all internet driven boxes? using streaming. They stream from countries abroad like Pakistan and so on.

Or is there an actual satellite box that does it?

You have to one of those LNB wires to plug into it, which is what comes from the dish on your house I think?

There is some sort of card required to plug into it, which costs £20 per year or something, but it gives a complete Sky package and loads of other things. All very dodgy likes.

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