FADE

FADE is digital rights management software developed by Macrovision. It operates by detecting if a game has been pirated, and initially allows the player to use the game normally and eventually and gradually degrades certain game features over a time, eventually rendering it unplayable.

How It Works

FADE creates fake scratches in specific areas on the disk image. When the disk image is copied, the program used to copy it will notice these scratches and automatically fix them. The game's master program then looks for these scratches, and if they are present then it is an original. If they are not available, then it knows it is a fake.

Supported Applications

Operation Flashpoint for the PC was the first game to use the FADE system of copy prevention. The software is also present in the recently released ARMA 2, and has since been cracked for both games .

Translation

The word "FADE" occurs as such in the following languages: English, Russian.