[Bifta]

Eventually I can see (certainly with games), 'scene' releases becoming a thing of the past, while they like to claim they can crack any copy protection, the methods are long becoming a pain, take Starforce 3 and Tages, two new methods of copy protecting software, warez groups have to not only filter out the copy protection throughout the game, they then have to play it all the way through (sometimes more than once to get every permutation of gameplay) to check their cracks have worked they also at times have to release an entire new cd's worth of cracked content just so people can play it, it's no longer a matter of just releasing a cracked executable. Also, with more and more people going on to broadband, I'd say in five years most software will 'phone home' and check the software serial numbers on the companies servers and will probably have much more online content, making a crack to block accessing the internet worthless.