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Denuvo Accused of Using Unlicensed Software to Protect its Anti-Piracy Tool

posted by n1 on Tuesday June 06 2017, @05:45AM   Printer-friendly
from the russians-everywhere dept.

MrPlow writes:

Submitted via IRC for TheMightyBuzzard

In what could be a severe case of irony overload, anti-piracy company Denuvo is being accused of using unlicensed software to protect its infamous anti-piracy tool. A developer of VMProtect, software which itself protects against reverse engineering and cracking, says that Denuvo has been using the product without obtaining the necessary permission.

[...] According to a post on Russian forum RSDN, Denuvo is accused of engaging in a little piracy of its own. The information comes from a user called drVanо, who is a developer at VMProtect Software, a company whose tools protect against reverse engineering and cracking.

[...] drVano says that around three years ago, VMProtect Software and Denuvo entered into correspondence about the possibility of Denuvo using VMProtect in their system. VMProtect says they were absolutely clear that would not be possible under a standard $500 license, since the cost to Denuvo of producing something similar for themselves would be several hundred thousand dollars.

However, with no proper deal set up, drVano says that Denuvo went ahead anyway, purchasing a cheap license for VMProtect and going on to “mow loot” (a Russian term for making bank) with their successful Denuvo software.

Source: TorrentFreak

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  • (Score: 4, Interesting) by krishnoid on Tuesday June 06 2017, @06:52AM (3 children)

    by krishnoid (1156) on Tuesday June 06 2017, @06:52AM (#521205)

    It would be helpful to have a central site of these kinds of events, where defenders of strong copyright infringement penalties show up as intentionally having infringed copyright themselves without providing appropriate restitution.

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  • (Score: 2) by sjames on Tuesday June 06 2017, @07:54AM (1 child)

    by sjames (2882) on Tuesday June 06 2017, @07:54AM (#521221) Journal

    If you include hollywood accounting used to shave royalties, your list is pretty much just defenders of strong copyright infringement penalties.

    • (Score: 2) by krishnoid on Tuesday June 06 2017, @08:58PM

      by krishnoid (1156) on Tuesday June 06 2017, @08:58PM (#521567)

      You're probably right. I was hoping for a list with links to news articles showing when/where/what they infringed.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 06 2017, @07:58AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 06 2017, @07:58AM (#521224)

    One of the TFA commenters, thisguy1337, seems to be doing something like that. TorrentFreak uses Disqus for comments, though.