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posted by n1 on Friday June 09 2017, @10:09PM   Printer-friendly
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


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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by SomeGuy on Saturday June 10 2017, @01:23AM (2 children)

    by SomeGuy (5632) on Saturday June 10 2017, @01:23AM (#523346)

    Will people ever stop buying copy protected software?

    People have known how STUPID copy protection is since at least the early 1980s. Bring home the brand spanking new copy of dBase III or such and such, try and load it up and oh "unauthorized copy?", yea the copy protection doesn't even work on that new AT 286, or the oddball clones your office uses. Sure, look around and someone has already written an unprotect that will actually let you USE your software. But you really want to risk your business on using a product like that?

    Back then magazine journalists openly complained about the copy protection, with little fear of repercussion. Because everyone knew they were right. And there was enough competition that clone products without copy protection stood to make big bucks filling the voids.

    I only wish copy protection had died off like the dodo bird. But here it is alive and kicking. I've seen "modern" business software that will give you the finger if you even have a part in your computer repaired and replaced.

    But people still put up with this shit. At least this is just some dumb game. Nobody needs games. And there is no shortage of games anyway. Go buy a pack of playing cards or something that is not copy protected/DRMed.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 10 2017, @08:53AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 10 2017, @08:53AM (#523436)

    Kill DRM! [defectivebydesign.org]

  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 10 2017, @08:10PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 10 2017, @08:10PM (#523571)

    It's actually worse than that, there's industrial control software that has to be permanently hooked up to the internet because of always-online DRM which is the unspoken reason as to why those things are "on the internet" in the first place.