TSR Privacy Violation
Marhis:
Actually, I'm not very shocked about the whole TSR watermark issue; I think it's fair game: it's their stuff (except Shakeshaft's, of course :P), they want to track who downloads what (according to informations they already left on their site - IPs and email)? Fine for me.
On the other hand, it's perfectly fine that downloaders (and PMBD) want to get rid of that, and preserve their anonymity in file sharing. Again, fair game.
Putting a watermark in a package is lame, but alas, being TSR it's not surprising. isn't it?
wes_h:
A more sophisticated system would have put the user details in a log, and placed a transaction ID in the package. Then it is just a number, not so easy to recognize. While this method is simple, placing the watermark in the same spot consistently is easy to find and fix with a hex editor. It is not so easy to do a lot of locations unless you make a more sophisticated program that can bury it within some of the data items inside the package.
That would be truly devious, but would require a skillset greater then the average bear.
J. M. Pescado:
Quote from: wes_h on 2009 April 04, 14:43:28
A more sophisticated system would have put the user details in a log, and placed a transaction ID in the package.
That would actually be easier to detect and defuse than the current system!
Quote from: wes_h on 2009 April 04, 14:43:28
Then it is just a number, not so easy to recognize. While this method is simple, placing the watermark in the same spot consistently is easy to find and fix with a hex editor.
That was the original system, but naturally, it was such a miserable failure that it was defused accidentally.
Quote from: wes_h on 2009 April 04, 14:43:28
It is not so easy to do a lot of locations unless you make a more sophisticated program that can bury it within some of the data items inside the package.
They did that. It didn't help.
Quote from: wes_h on 2009 April 04, 14:43:28
That would be truly devious, but would require a skillset greater then the average bear.
It would, but their kung-fu is weak.
spambi:
Quote from: jfade on 2009 April 03, 20:49:45
All TSR put into the packages was the user ID, IP address, and date that the package was downloaded. (And they have come out saying they did so here.) That's it, and it had no effect on the packages when placed in the game that I ever saw.
Did you forget that when a watermarked TSR file was changed using the wardrobe wrangler, it would cause the game to crash? Major fucking pain in the ass.
J. M. Pescado:
Quote from: jfade on 2009 April 03, 20:49:45
All TSR put into the packages was the user ID, IP address, and date that the package was downloaded. (And they have come out saying they did so here.) That's it, and it had no effect on the packages when placed in the game that I ever saw.
This is lies and propaganda. They put a lot MORE in there. We've seen it.
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