Why can’t PS5/Xbox discs be copied and shared? Like they have some special discs but can’t they be manufactured as fakes and still work?
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Yes, there is something special done to discs to mark them as official PS5/Xbox disks. I’m not going into the details, but there are intentional quirks on the disc that the game platform can pick up on to decide if the disc is real or not. One strategy for hackers to make them work anyway is to hack the firmware of the disc drive to report all discs as legit to the console.
But more to the point, blank disks are marked as such for the benefit of the burning disc drive. There’s information about the type, capacity, and capabilities of the disc pre-burned on the disc, not to mention the actual track around the disc for the laser to follow does exist. Even after burning, you can see this information and tell it’s a copied disc.
Forging real games would require you be able to make fully custom discs. That requires some serious manufacturing hardware, and would make the cost of piracy quite high, defeating the purpose.
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