What copy protection scheme will be on SOWBOB?
 

If it's Starforce I'm going to organize a boycott of this game.

How can intellectual products be sold... not stole?
 

I think Oleg learned on PE-2.

I've never bought another in the series of Lock-on, because of the anti-piracy junk. Then of course, I never liked flying over one map all the time either.

Who wouldn't blame him for trying to do something. There are millions of piracy DL taking place right now, and continually 24/7. It is worse than a shame, it is a disgrace. The broadband sellers like AT&T, Yahoo, TimeWarner, Cox, etc. here in the US all promote their superfast download speeds. Think about who that little bit of marketing is targeting.

Those who use the computer for legitimate purposes aren't concerned about download speeds for the most part.

Yet, when MSFT comes with a new fix or patch. Having a fast DL speed really does help with large files, and Service packs.

This is a fact, unless you take elaborate measures to disquise your internet identity your Internet provider can identify you. Remember, even if you are putting up a new IP each time the server assigning it via DHCP knows who and at what time it was assigned.

It wouldn't surprise me one afternoon to view on TV, where the US Department of Justice has been accumlating information on downloaders, especially those frequenting certain sites. Afterall, most piracy is coming from a handful of sites. I wouldn't want the feds knocking on my door wanting to ask me a few questions, or worse standing in my door with a darned search warrant.

A friend of mine is a musician that is with a darn good band. They put up one song on Youtube that has gotten millions of plays, and they have no idea how many were downloaded. The band members are constantly bummed, because they can't make it selling music. They have to make it on the road, and then it's hard times all the time. My friend said, "The reason the Pre-teens like Cyrus and the rappers are on big on the Grammy's and stuff is because their audience isn't computer literate enough to download music".

The "Grammys are based on sales" not the quality of the music.

We are definitely in a changing world, and at some point artists and people who develop intellectual products are going to have to protect their interests.

Thinking about IL-2 is available online with Steam, perhaps this would be an option for SoW as well. I don't have any problems with Steam either.

SoW's best protection will be its quality.
Be sure.

Agreed. Whatever you think about protection, Every protection so far has been cracked within 14 days. Several games without any protection at all are doing fine in sales. Copy protection as such is not helping anyone. The ligitimate customers are burdened with the negative side effects, the pirates upload cracked games and don't care one way or the other.

I really hope SoW will be unprotected like the US retail version of Sturmovik 1946, XPlane, and a lot of other fine games. Copy protection never stopped a single pirate.

It's not a question to ask the development team I think. The distributor (Ubisoft) decides on protection schemes.

I will buy SoW regardless. If I have problems with the protection scheme, I'll just wait. Sooner or later a solution will surface.

If SoW is sold through Steam then I will miss it. I don't like the way these download services work. Boonty box was bad enough. I want a physical disc, and no complex activation garbage.

It's getting harder and harder to run a gaming PC without internet connection.

I'm happy to make a phone call to activate a product, just don't want to load down PC with unncessary firewalls, antivirus, antispyware.

Personally I hope they do find a solution to the piracy problem with a protection system that works. Even then, I'd much rather have an annoying protection system than developers dropping combat sims because years of costly, complex work can be download in minutes by some lowlife.

For sure X2

Hey Nate whatever happened to the system checking software you were working on ?

I hate upgrade pc for every new simulation/pack! But i am a crazy, seems i will upgrade again :)))