Topic: Someone out there might find this interesting

[Infernal Monkey]

I guess.

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DS to get Piracy protection in Australia
The Nintendo DS will feature locally developed software that allows players to wirelessly share a game without downloading a permanent copy to other machines.

The software, RSA BSAFE, will be included in the console, which debuts on February 24.

The encryption software, developed at RSA Security's Brisbane Development Centre, protects games as they are played and shared across wireless links.

The software locks content so it cannot be illegally copied from the original cartridge or disk.

Games software downloaded by other players during a session was erased as soon as the console was closed, according to a Nintendo Australia spokeswoman.

"This protects Nintendo and our games development partners from piracy. "It does not have any adverse effect on consumers, nor on the play experience." The player with a DS version of Super Mario, for example, simply loads the cartridge into the console and then seeks other DS users in the neighbourhood to join the game.

"They come along and decide to play, tap into it, and then play against each other," she said.

"As soon as they shut their machine, they don't have the game any more. It's securely held on the cartridge owned by the first player."

The content protection system was not yet widespread, she said.

"With a lot of the games, the consumer advice panel will let you know whether you can transfer data from one DS machine to another."

With two screens and touchscreen technology, the DS is designed as a highly interactive, multi-player platform that supports wireless gameplay, PictoChat and instant messaging with other DS consoles up to 30m away. Nintendo secures the information communicated between two or more consoles with two cryptographic toolkits, Crypto-C and Crypto-C ME, developed in Brisbane, RSA BDC director Glenn Dickman said.

"Our security software encrypts the information as it's passed backwards and forwards between the multiple users," he said.

"At the same time, it protects the digital rights of game publishers by ensuring games can only be used under certain conditions."

RSA's BDC was developing a digital rights management toolkit based on the emerging Open Mobile Alliance DRM standard, Mr Dickman said.

The standard would provide an alternative to Nintendo's proprietary Japanese DRM system.

Source: Australianit.news.com.au

Ahahaha, Mr. Dickman.

[Shift Key]

Now I have a brand new hero. I wonder if this guy has a superhero suit or something.

[DemonFox]

Well I don't live in Australia so...
Happy Chinese New Year everyone!
It's the year of the rooster.
For... 20 minutes now.

(no I don't live in China either...)

[KDR_11k]

And I was already wondering about the RSA logo on my (japanese) DS.

[Berto2K]

Its on the US one also.

[Hostile Creation]

Well considering the DS doesn't have regional differences, that makes sense.

Anyway, that's too many words.  I thought download play was standard?  Is this something more?

[Bill Aurion]

Yeah, Ninty uses this for their standard 1-cart multiplay...

[norebonomis]

longing for a 32fourswords download-play game for ds. sigh.