  Those Wiikeys and Cyclowizes could be soon out of a job
Comments     Threshold   RE: And the cycle continues . . . By
afkrotch on 5/30/2007 10:21:09 PM , Rating: 2 Umm...Microsoft's
main way to stop piracy is through hardware. Sure there's your
standard software based protection, which is easily defeated,
but it's all worthless if the hardware can detect that it's not
an original disc.  Also piracy can be stopped. It's pretty
simple. Create a diskless console. It connects online and
directly to whatever site. From there you pay for a game and
it'll start streaming the game down. All saves are put onto the
online servers.  The console is built inside an airtight metal
box, filled with some form of combustible gas. It has to explode
when it reacts to oxygen/nitrogen/whatever else that is in
standard air. The explosion has to be small enough that it won't
escape the console and large enough that it'll destroy the
internals of the console.  Also, just incase someone tries to
open the console in an airtight