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