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Hitman 2’s Denuvo Protection Cracked Three Days Before Launch

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

stretch611 writes:

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, @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.