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posted by martyb on Tuesday November 20 2018, @09:39AM   Printer-friendly
from the Defective-by-Design dept.

According to TorrentFreak, the long-awaiting stealth game Hitman 2 — which comes 'protected' by the latest variant of Denuvo (v5.3) — leaked online. Aside from having its protection circumvented, this happened three days before the title's official launch on November 13.

It appears that a relatively new cracking group called FCKDRM obtained a version of Hitman 2 that was only available to those who pre-ordered the game. While several groups have been chipping away at Denuvo for some time, FCKDRM is a new entrant (at least by branding) to the cracking scene. (Note: The group is not related to the FCKDRM initiative, an anti-DRM site launched by GOG.com, even though it does use the logo.)

It should be noted that the owners of Denuvo released marketing material a few months ago suggesting that even 4 days of protection (actually even hours according to them) is worth the price of their DRM. (However, no mention of -3 days.)


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 20 2018, @04:45PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 20 2018, @04:45PM (#764287)

    quit saying "commercial" when you mean "closed source". Free Software can be commercial too. Acting like something has to be closed source to be commercial is either ignorance or propaganda for digital slave traders.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 20 2018, @05:03PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 20 2018, @05:03PM (#764294)

    "Commercial" in this context usually refers to "software aimed at businesses, not at home users". A company will often buy a site license of some kind in order to get access to all of their employees at a location with a minimum of hassle.

    It's just buying in bulk, typically for software intended to do something specific for the company. (Inventory tracking, order management, data movement, at company/enterprise-scale. Not something you'd TYPICALLY find useful for the average household consumer.)

    Open Source "commercial" software exists. Closed Source "commercial" software exists. One is not a prerequisite for the other.