While speaking at a conference, Atari founder Nolan Bushnell suggested that a new chip that is currently in production could mean that video game piracy could come to an end.

At the conference, he explained that this stealth encryption chip (known as a TPM) is being installed on new motherboards that come with new computers, and that it will open up revenue prospects in areas such as Asia and India. In these regions, the chip will be able to "encrypt with an absolutely verifiable private key in the encryption world -- which is uncrackable by people on the internet and by giving away passwords." This will allow a huge market to develop in some sectors where piracy is a major problem.

While this could be good news for software developers, Bushnell believes that piracy of movies and music will continue to be an unstoppable force because "if you can watch it and you can hear it, you can copy it. Games are a different thing, because games are so integrated with the code. The TPM will, in fact, absolutely stop piracy of gameplay."

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