In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Rapha�l Junqueira wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Le Tuesday 04 November 2003 23:07, Alexandre Julliard a �crit : >> Tom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> >> > Alexandre, is there any chance of this code *ever* being excepted into >> > the wine tree? >> >> >> None whatsoever, the driver "reimplementation" is clearly a DMCA >> violation. The proper way to do that is to somehow load the driver and >> let it perform all the checks it wants to perform; a dummy driver that >> returns magic values to bypass the checks is not acceptable. >> > > Why about trying to get this driver working on top of current ntdll ? > All drivers accesses should pass by kernel calls no ? > > Regards, > Raphael
In the perfect world, yes.. but this is not how most copy protections do it. Using the copy protection's driver directly will IMHO not be possible without emulating certain things for the driver and this is probably also illegal in respect to the DMCA. (lying to the kernel mode driver is kind of the same as lying to the user-mode part of the protection, no?!) If you want to run copy protected games, then your best option is to use transgaming's WineX. (or use a fixed executable, but then you are in violation of the DMCA -- it doesn't matter that you OWN the original).. it's a silly world!
