SafeCast
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SafeCast is a registered trademark for Macrovision's legacy software protection system. Safecast features product activation (via telephone, or through internet), and executable wrapping technology. SafeCast can be easily defeated with a keygen.
[edit] Controversy
SafeCast overrides operating-system security and safeguards and writes directly to the boot track of the local disk as part of its operation. TurboTax, Intuit's tax-preparation software product, uses SafeCast in some versions, and the protection scheme has been blamed for a wide variety of problems with product activation and use, leading Intuit to partially remove the technology. Adobe also uses a version of SafeCast for its CS products, and has had similar but less frequent problems, particularly with certain types of disk configurations (RAID, multiple-boot), but continues to use the technology for copy protection.
[edit] External links
- Intuit to use kinder, gentler version of SafeCast - May, 2003
- Intuit Soothes DRM Fears with TurboTax Uninstaller - January, 2003
- Intuit press release on independent testing - press release, February 24, 2003
- Intuit licenses SafeCast - press release, September 5, 2002
- Intuit continues use of SafeCast - press release, May 15, 2003
- Intuit scrambles to ease TurboTax woes - January, 2003
- Intuit pours oil on TurboTax troubles - January, 2003
- Adobe tries out DRM in Photoshop - July, 2003
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