We’ve seen video game piracy all the time on PC, and even with really old systems with counterfeit cartridges. But what’s stopping people from doing that now?
I understand there’s security measures in place, and probably some form of encryption. But people have found ways to reverse engineer any console and mod it, so what’s stopping them from reverse engineering their encryption and burning their own discs for a legit console?
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TL;DR: Why can’t people just burn game data onto discs to pirate / duplicate them?
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There’s a ring of data near the center of disks that can be read by the console, but it is out of the range of consumer disk burners. So if you purchased a commercial grade disk maker then nothing is stopping you, but you’d have to sell a lot of bootleg disks to make back the money.
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