Speaking at Wedbush Morgan's annual Management Access Conference held in New York, Atari founder Nolan Bushnell stated his belief that the hardware-based TPM encryption chip, which is currently shipping out on a selective number of recent motherboard models, will effectively end the threat of piracy of video game software on PC.[blockquote2]There is a stealth encryption chip called a TPM that is going on the motherboards of most of the computers that are coming out now
What that says is that in the games business we will be able to encrypt with an absolutely verifiable private key in the encryption world - which is uncrackable by people on the internet and by giving away passwords - which will allow for a huge market to develop in some of the areas where piracy has been a real problem.[/blockquote2]Uncrackable, eh? Right... right, we've heard that how many times before? Please, don't challenge the internet, Bushnell.
Encryption chip will end piracy, open markets, says Bushnell [GI.biz]