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from the i-am-the-keymaster-are-you-the-gatekeeper? dept.
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: 4, Informative) by looorg on Saturday June 10 2017, @12:53AM (1 child)
Under normal circumstances I would agree, I think an exception could be made for Denuvo. For the hardness of the protection and the infamy of the product. Normally I don't give two bits of interest anymore for the scene but with all the news and talk of Denuvo I at least find it moderately interesting. A keygen is really the death of a protection -- you have figured out how a valid license is created and you can just spew out valid licenses until the cows come home. This was a few days ago and they have already created another keygen for another "old" Denuvo protected game -- Adr1ft (released March'16) so I would say this is quite a serious nail in the protection scheme since they now then prove that this was not some one hit wonder. The version of the DRM used for '16 releases that are probably not going to be updated protection wise either, so there could be a slew of patches to remove the protection now -- the DRM served it's purpose, it's defeated, might as well be removed with the next bugfix. Question for Denuvo might be how much difference is there between the 2016 version of it and the 2017 version, they might be in deep shit -- which is probably why these guys in return obscured and protected their keygen -- which caused a lot of discussion of the keygen was malware or not etc etc.
I don't think there will be a cease and desist since this is at best a very meta discussion about it -- possibly more gloating and mild curiosity then anything else and we are not even talking about any actual technical aspects, we are not linking to the actual piece of software -- at most we talked about it and we linked to a text file that said something about it happening. I seem to recall similar discussions, not here, when StarForce and SecuROM was the "protection scheme" of choice back in the day.
I think someone else reported this to since it appeared twice in the submission list but there wasn't a merger of submissions and it was deleted, so I wasn't the only one that at least found it moderately interesting.
https://www.pcgamesn.com/denuvo-key-generator-tekken-7-crack [pcgamesn.com]
https://www.reddit.com/r/CrackWatch/comments/6fgvx0/dishonored2steampunks/ [reddit.com]
https://segmentnext.com/2017/06/06/cpy-steampunk-gunning-denuvo-working-keygen-released/ [segmentnext.com]
https://www.xrel.to/game-nfo/1347298/ADR1FT-STEAMPUNKS.html [www.xrel.to]
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Saturday June 10 2017, @04:44AM
I might, actually, pay the two bits. At a bitrate of 1bpc(entury), though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford