From what I understand, there are 3 ways to do copy protection in WINE (at least for copy protection that needs a kernel driver to work): 1.Implement a WINE implementation of that kernel driver (in the same way various stock windows kernel drivers have been implemented). Problem with this is that there is a big DMCA risk (which is why AFAIK its been rejected) 2.Implement a fake NTOSKRNL that has just the entrypoints for accessing and loading copy protection drivers (the set of kernel calls needed by the copy protection drivers is only a very small subset of the total set of kernel calls and AFAIK none of them are hardware related) or 3.Implement a proper kernel driver loader (i.e. one that would sit in the windows kernel and do the same sort of thing as that ndiswrapper and that ntfs.sys loader do)
What is the current state of copy protection work for WINE? Which of these 3 options do the developers intend to follow? (I remember someone posted some actual code for option 2 but I dont remember if anything happened with it)