JS games on the web, and preventing piracy

Newsgroups	comp.lang.javascript
Date	2017-09-02 11:10 -0700
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Subject	JS games on the web, and preventing piracy
From	bit-naughty@hotmail.com

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...I've posted bout this before, but thought I'd do it again, just to get more people's input.

So - talking about games, it seems to me that it would be advisable to shift games from retail CDs/DVDs to the web - because it would SEEM that this would prevent piracy. How? Well - there's no files on a disc to crack, like with a DVD, so, here - the idea would be, you stick your credit card into a website, and it spits out the JS for the game....right?

Umm no.


What if someone LEGITIMATELY buys the game, (with their credit card), then simply waits to download it, and simply COPIES everything between the SCRIPT tags into a separate file, and zaps it onto the Internet on a torrent or something???




...What I'd like to discuss is ways in which THIS CAN BE PREVENTED!!

There *must* be some way to ensure that only people who've paid get to play....?


I was thinking - when you pay, you'll get some kind of "username n password" from the site, which you login with, to start getting the game - what if the game periodically checks for the fact that you're logged in with these two, (ie. a CLIENT-SIDE cookie check, in JS) before it lets you proceed? ..But a cracker could simply check for these lines in the source and remove them, couldn't they?


Yall have any other ideas?

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JS games on the web, and preventing piracy bit-naughty@hotmail.com - 2017-09-02 11:10 -0700
  Re: JS games on the web, and preventing piracy "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2017-09-03 00:18 +0200
    Re: JS games on the web, and preventing piracy Andrew Poulos <ap_prog@hotmail.com> - 2017-09-03 18:20 +1000
      Re: JS games on the web, and preventing piracy "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2017-09-03 12:29 +0200
  Re: JS games on the web, and preventing piracy JJ <jj4public@vfemail.net> - 2017-09-03 14:41 +0700
    Re: JS games on the web, and preventing piracy Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2017-09-03 19:10 +0200
  Re: JS games on the web, and preventing piracy "Michael Haufe (TNO)" <tno@thenewobjective.com> - 2017-09-03 10:14 -0700

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