Mad Doc Software Selects ECD For 'Serious Game' Security

Anti-piracy and copy protection software company ECD Systems has announced that Mad Doc Software has selected ECD's Security Authoring Workstation (SAW) as a means to protect special versions of Mad Doc's real-time strategy software technology, MadRTS. The versions to be protected are limited to those for non-commercial military and academic research purposes, and are being used by the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C. and licensed academic researchers for conducting artificial intelligence research. “Copy protection for these special versions of MadRTS protects our technology and the technology of our licensors,” said Mad Doc CEO Dr. Ian Lane Davis. “MadRTS is proving to be a useful tool in government and academic researchers' development of artificial intelligence systems, and we chose ECD as the best technology available to limit use and control copying of the discs.” Developed under a Naval Research Laboratory grant, these versions of MadRTS help researchers to develop and test their AI systems. ECD's SAW technology will be used to create discs protected with Digital Armor that contain restricted versions of MadRTS. This content protection technology will allow design studios and publishers to create in-house volume production-quality discs that are each unique and forensically traceable. Discs created by SAW and protected with Digital Armor can be securely circulated without the risk of unauthorized copies or hacking of the content. Because these versions of MadRTS can only be applied to non-commercial research, ECD's piracy protection against unauthorized copying is critical.