While game piracy and DRM definitely existed prior to CD burners (anyone else remember the large codewheels that cluttered many early PC game boxes?), Harrington said the new technology—and the ...

Sony’s method of copy protection relied on steps taken during the manufacturing process, pressing a special groove into the game media that regular CD burners couldn’t replicate, a topic our ...

It can be used to burn a downloaded game to recordable disk, along with copy protection as would be provided on a retail edition of the game. It can also be used to burn downloaded software and ...