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TheLuminary t1_j2308hr wrote

Locks are strong against an unskilled opponent. But if you give your friend a locked box to use, you have to provide them with a way to get the key at some point so they can open it.

If you sell these boxes to millions of people, someone you sell it to is going to have some skill and know how to copy or modify a key, and then start giving keys out to other people do that they can also open the boxes, even unauthorized ones.

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nstickels t1_j231t49 wrote

This is a great answer for digital protection. Physical piracy would be where you physically need the game disk to play the game. But physical disks can still be copied. Either to another disk, or to a hard drive.

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TheLuminary t1_j2320ee wrote

My answer also explains why you can use copied disks with genuine hardware.. because someone figured out the key.

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