Well the day that everyone was waiting for finally came; the release
of the new 12611 dashboard also known as the Kinect dashboard. One of
the main (and un-announced) features was the implementation of
Anti-Piracy 2.5 or AP25.
This is a new way of checking the backup disc to ensure it is
authentic (to get those nasty pirates off of our paid-for LIVE
service!). The first 2 games to actually utilize this so far are Fable 3
and Call of Duty: Black Ops.
AP25 will affect systems with later version Hitachi drives (noone
knows the revision/fw numbers they start implementing it in), BENQ, as
well as the Lite-ON drives. ALL Samsung drives are incapable of reading
the new Security Sector v3 (another requirement for AP25) which in turn
required Microsoft to turn off AP25 checks on any systems with Samsung
disc drives.
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