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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: 3, Interesting) by unauthorized on Friday July 27 2018, @01:33PM (2 children)

    by unauthorized (3776) on Friday July 27 2018, @01:33PM (#713656)

    Patched binaries only I believe. Still copyright infringement, but worthless without a copy of the game data itself.

    So: is he stupid or smart?

    Anyone who can crack a modern DRM is a very intelligent person. Ignorance =/= stupidity.

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  • (Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Friday July 27 2018, @01:50PM

    by MichaelDavidCrawford (2339) Subscriber Badge <mdcrawford@gmail.com> on Friday July 27 2018, @01:50PM (#713666) Homepage Journal

    Note that I have any great amount of the latter.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 27 2018, @02:44PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 27 2018, @02:44PM (#713693)

    Re. patched binaries - what I don't understand is why don't these crackers release tools which modify original binaries, instead of releasing the changed binary itself? Or even source code which builds into a tool to modify the original binaries. Or maybe a python script which does such modifications. Wouldn't that defeat all arguments of copyright infringement, IP infringement etc.? They're only distributing what is then 100% their own original work, no content from whatever they're targeting. Then at most I see this could only devolve into a DeCSS-type situation, the legality of which seems to vary from country to country.