TPM, a stealth encryption chip is being fitted into motherboards of most computers that are being rolled out now. This, according to Atari founder Nolan Bushnell will make PC game piracy a thing of the past:
“What that says is that in the games business we will be able to encrypt with an absolutely verifiable private key in the encryption world - which is uncrackable by people on the internet and by giving away passwords - which will allow for a huge market to develop in some of the areas where piracy has been a real problem.”
“Games are a different thing, because games are so integrated with the code. The TPM will, in fact, absolutely stop piracy of gameplay.
“As soon as the installed base of the TPM hardware chip gets large enough, we will start to see revenues coming from Asia and India at a time when before it didn’t make sense.”
Now before you try stocking up on as many pirated copies of NFS ProStreet as you can, keep in mind that piracy does developers, publishers and eventually gamers no favors (what with the lack of PC games available has shown as well as the closure of several studios) and that this is a better idea of circumventing piracy than what we’ve seen in the recent past.
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