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Dreamcast Copyright Breached By Underground Hackers Utopia

Calendar Jul 01, 2000 • User Avatar Anthony Pell
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A group of underground computer programmers has broken through copyright protections on Sega's Dreamcast game console, sparking a new explosion of pirated game software online in just a week's time. ... a group calling itself "Utopia" released a set of copied . . . A group of underground computer programmers has broken through copyright protections on Sega's Dreamcast game console, sparking a new explosion of pirated game software online in just a week's time. ... a group calling itself "Utopia" released a set of copied games online--along with a software program that would trick the Dreamcast hardware into playing the games without any modifications to the hardware itself.

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