Comment Re:Why bother with space solar power? (Score 1) 275
I think I'd rather the Chinese waste money on this, and then just copy whatever they come up with, and save money on R+D.
Potentially each level could be a new exe file sent down from the server, and before running it could check for cracks. Hell the server could send out bits of code that would run on the client. E.g. you could checksum a random area of memory and compare it against the value from a known good machine as a way to find cracked machines
That sounds like it would take lots of bandwidth and power.
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