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Amazing work. Also highlights how paranoid DRM proponents often are going to such lengths to cripple the hardware.

Breaking DRM is like finding a cure for insanity ;)

"Breaking DRM is like finding a cure for insanity ;)"

Well said.

Remeber those Arcade Game-Memory manufactured into the battery? You had to break the battery and (suppossedly) cut the powersupply to get to them.

Isane.

Are you thinking of Suicide Batteries?[1]

IIRC, tehy're a major hindrance to people who want to legitimately restore old arcade/pinball machines, rather than just grabbing a cracked rom.

[1] http://www.arcadecollecting.com/dead/

Yes, what a wonderfull example of corpoorate paranoia. They are out there- the enemy, the other tribesman and there psychopaths- out to get me, my fortress, my product for cheap- but i will show it to them, i shall leave no mark upon this world, for which i shall be remembered.

Ten layers of tinfoil can capture pirate-bullets.

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