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There has been a fair amount of interest or news regard the Denuvo DRM/Anti-tampering software during the last few weeks -- from how hard it is to crack, the performance impact on the games protected by it and how they apparently are trying to use other peoples software on the cheap. Released a day or so ago a new way to circumvent the protection.
The latest "crack" is apparently that of Dishonored 2, which was released in the stores (or on steam) in November '16. The difference to the previous workarounds is that this time it apparently includes a keygenerator. So files remain intact and instead it validates the game as real and proper. That is one way to work around the issue of never having to remove any protection. That might still leave it with the second complaint and problem with Denuvo tho and that is that with this way it will retain all the performance issues the games appear to have while the protection is alive and active.
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Source: xRel
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 09 2017, @11:46PM (3 children)
I want to know how loud the screaming and cussing from the board room is every time one of the Denuvo games is cracked.
I sort of feel sorry for the developers who are going to get excoriated before the masters of the universe, but on the other hand, that's what you get for working for stupid people motivated purely by avarice. At the very least, I hope every developer who is going to have the next few weeks of their life wasted with endless meetings being grilled, cussed out, and accused of insane things by clueless CxOs has other options for employment.
Professional software developers should simply refused to work for DRM companies. If we had a professional association, this could be a collective bargaining position.
(Score: 5, Interesting) by Ethanol-fueled on Friday June 09 2017, @11:59PM (1 child)
I think it's groundbreaking only because its ballsy for SN to post it and hope they don't get a cease-and-decist -- though there is often a fine line between reporting on and condoning something, and they probably have decent latitude to say, "Fuck you, we're just reporting on it."
The DRM cancer is not only limited to games. Legitimate paid users of software such as Steinberg's Cubase have been bitching and moaning about the negative effects from the complicated DRM for years -- DRM becomes such a priority to such companies that it's no longer a "enter a key from a generator to quiet down our insurance companies," it's baked into the DNA of the code itself and frequently rears its ugly head during the most inopportune moments.
So then you see such bizarre phenomena as users buying licenses and then using the cracked versions so their shit Just Works™ when they need it to.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 10 2017, @10:28AM
TorrentFreak posts about torrents and stuff all the time and is still up and running. Does not mean shady companies didn't try DMCA it from Google search results, though.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 10 2017, @01:49PM
The developers who actually wrote the DRM work for the company that Denuvo got the software from [soylentnews.org] but didn't want to pay for the appropriate licenses.