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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.)
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Wednesday November 21 2018, @03:34PM
While I agree with you on certain points, the simple fact is there is a growing market for DRM free games. Case in point: https://www.gog.com/ [gog.com] DRM is anti-consumer, it's literally treating all of your customers like they are criminals or potential criminals. While, I do use Steam and have quite a collection there and have other DRM protected games. I also, have a nice collection of games through GOG, which I treat as my game archive / vault. I like a game enough, I'm definitely going to be getting it on GOG. You can download your entire collection and back it up on physical media. So, in the event the site goes bust, you're still golden. Also, you're not treated like a parasite, if you don't want to be online while playing your games or for whatever reason can't be online. One system treats you like a normal human being and the other treats you like a criminal. Guess which one I like the best. Oh, and I'm not buying Fallout 76. I'm tired of every publisher wanting their own platform, so they screw the middle man. Guess what, the middle man is Useful, because we don't want to keep track of 50 different publishers and their requisite logins.
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