On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 05:18:57PM +0100, James Courtier-Dutton wrote:
Martin Owens wrote:
Re Copy Protection.
be quite hard to make this work I think?
It would be quite dangerous to make this work.
What about creating a file say with a fake data map, wine thinks it's the direct access to the hard drive where all this information is held. all we do is add the place where the data starts and the data thats stored. it would be slower but it would get around the dangers while keeping the interface the same.
The easiest way round this is to simply recognise the executable with the copy protection, and simply install a hook to catch the appropriate file system or registry calls and divert them to a special handling routine to satisfy the application. The difficulty would come from actually implementing the "copy protection" part. I.e. Preventing the wine user from copying the software.
We can't, this kind of circumvention is likely to be illegal in the US.
Ciao, Marcus