[Mithaldu]

How often do game assets get stolen? From my perspective copy-cats emulate the style and the gameplay, but never outright steal assets; and players who do piracy copy the game wholesale, so that encryption does nothing there. All this kind of encryption does is mess with players who fancy customizing things.

[balls2you]

From what I understand when I read the blog, they're trying to demonstrate that you can use encryption/decryption on the GPU to create some form of DRM unique to your application. Their previous blog cites they are into researching some form of copy-protection systems.

As a once-upon-a-time iOS game dev, I can see it being used to handle In-App purchases where your game will only progress after you have purchased something and you get a key to decrypt the next level stuff. I can see it being used in that way. That's why I posted it here. It seemed interesting.