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DRM Software Company Takes Legal Action Against Cracker

posted by martyb on Friday July 27 2018, @11:32AM   Printer-friendly
from the cracker-crackdown dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

PC Gamer, Engadget and Gamezone report that software vendor Denuvo has taken legal action in Bulgaria against a man known as Voksi, who cracked their video gaming DRM. His equipment has been seized by the police.

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  • (Score: 2) by fido_dogstoyevsky on Saturday July 28 2018, @05:33AM

    by fido_dogstoyevsky (131) <{axehandle} {at} {gmail.com}> on Saturday July 28 2018, @05:33AM (#713934)

    Modern forms of DRM (stuff like CD-keys excluded):
    - openly treat customers like criminals
    - bloat binaries*
    - degrade performance
    - randomly stop your legally purchased software from working
    - are completely indistinguishable from viruses and trojans
    - siphon off private data, so also indistinguishable from spyware

    So why on earth would anybody part with their money to pay for that excrement? Why not just do without for a while and starve the beast?

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