Sony DADC announces SecuRom improvements

[PePsIBoTtLe]

We seem to have missed this one, but SecuRom has released a press release on August the 22th announcing improvements in their copy protection. On our CloneCD forum we indeed found a couple of people who have troubles with this protection.

Where SecuRom has always been a relatively easy to bypass copy protection, it now seems to be more aggressive and harder to copy. Unfortunately for SecuRom we have also seen reports of users that were not even able to play from the original anymore.
SECUROM Trigger Functions allow game developers to program multiple and fully customisable authentication checks throughout the entire application, providing more effective copy control than conventional systems with only one check at program start. Sony DADC offers a user-friendly, web-based Trigger Function Toolkit that enables publishers to customise a unique security code for each title in order to prevent Internet piracy and reverse-engineering attempts.

The new SECUROMTM disc encryption signature prevents illicit CD-R burning by raw data copying tools that are gaining popularity for casual home piracy. This revolutionary security enhancement has already proven successful for the European games publisher JoWooD. The publisher released "Industry Giant 2," a popular PC CD-ROM game, in June and since then has not received any reports of discs copied using digital cloning tools.

"We are very impressed by this unique level of protection against casual CD-R burning," says Gerhard Neuhofer, International Security Manager, JoWooD Production Software. "We are even more impressed that in addition to the increased security, our tech support team reports an outstanding disc drive compatibility rate of more than 99.9%."

/http://www.cdfreaks.com/news2.php3?ID=4717

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[Grenor]

As far as i know u can use Daemontools to emulate this new Securom edition.

[N.B.]

Yep, Daemon Tools OWN !
they are already working on the support for this new protection ..
The problem is that we need a new image format, first they implemented the format used by FantomCD, I am sure that they will add support for the Alcohol 120% format as well