{"id":28279,"date":"2020-03-02T17:01:30","date_gmt":"2020-03-02T22:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=28279"},"modified":"2020-03-12T16:04:03","modified_gmt":"2020-03-12T20:04:03","slug":"playstation-copy-protection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/02\/playstation-copy-protection\/","title":{"rendered":"PlayStation Copy Protection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XUwSOfQ1D3c\">Technology Connections<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XUwSOfQ1D3c\"><p>The original PlayStation is a pretty neat thing.  Using the CD as a storage medium was a smart move.  But, Sony needed to add anti-piracy features to the disc to prevent miscreants from making bootleg copies of Crash Bandicoot.  This video tells the story of how that works, why it wasn&rsquo;t infallible, and also proposes a potentially impervious solution (24 years late, though).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SwiftOnSecurity\/status\/1234296235865059330\">SwiftOnSecurity<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SwiftOnSecurity\/status\/1234296235865059330\"><p>PlayStation DRM wasn&rsquo;t based on hiding data on the CD. You can read them with a PC.\nThey wrote DRM data via the spiral that&rsquo;s are slightly perturbed in a pattern.\nAt home you can write the data on a CD, but not the vibration of the spiral<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p id=\"playstation-copy-protection-update-2020-03-12\">Update (2020-03-12): <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/handcoding\/status\/1237489005358469120\">Ashley Bischoff<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/handcoding\/status\/1237489005358469120\">\n<p>If you haven&rsquo;t seen it already, I can strongly vouch for this video on &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7HOBQ7HifLE\">How the Sony PlayStation PS1 Security Was Defeated<\/a>&rdquo; from \n@ModernVintageG.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Technology Connections: The original PlayStation is a pretty neat thing. Using the CD as a storage medium was a smart move. But, Sony needed to add anti-piracy features to the disc to prevent miscreants from making bootleg copies of Crash Bandicoot. This video tells the story of how that works, why it wasn&rsquo;t infallible, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2020-03-02T22:01:32Z","apple_news_api_id":"2c3eb8f8-33d3-46f1-a42a-c088c38056bd","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2020-03-12T20:04:06Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/ALD64-DPTRvGkKsCIw4BWvQ","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[156,1225,182,295,1224],"class_list":["post-28279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-cd","tag-crash-bandicoot","tag-drm","tag-history","tag-sony-playstation"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28279"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28375,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28279\/revisions\/28375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}