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Ubisoft Steals 'No-CD Crack' To Fix Rainbow 6: Vegas 2
Ariastis writes "UbiSoft has long been against No-CD patches. Referring to them on their forums would get you warned or banned. But now, they have just officially released a patch for Rainbow 6: Vegas 2, which, when opened in a hex editor, can easily be identified as coming from the RELOADED scene group, not from UbiSoft programmers. A picture of hex analysis is shown in the story. See? Piracy isn't that bad! It saves you from having to code fixes for your own games! (Watch the drama on the Ubi Forums before it gets scrubbed clean.)"
Presumably the patch has been nuked for Stolen.Crack?
It's entirely in the spirit of online freedom that all who use cracks live by. It's also a quiet nod to the expertise of those who wrote the crack.
I think we should all take this as a good sign of further co-operation in times to come.
Under which license is the crack redistributed? Does it allow including it in a closed-source project?
Yeah, I'm still laughing at the irony of Ubisoft being accused of "stealing" from the guys who pirated their game.
Those poor pirates! Ubisoft just ripped off their work, downloaded and distributed it for free, and never gave them anything in return. Ubisoft is destroying the pirate industry!
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You're an immobile computer, remember?
All ze Americans are morons and deserve Bush.
Shame on you, Ubisoft! This kind of rampant IP theft is what is killing the PC game pirating industry!
They should send UBIsoft's ISP a DMCA takedown ;)
Computer Science is all about trying to find the right wrench to bang in the right screw. -T.Cumbo?
were they black?
Couple of years ago, we had a party at our house, and some girls locked themselves out of their car. Roommate got a long piece of metal, and was in the process of opening the door of the car, which was parked on the side of the street, when the cops drove by. They stopped and asked if everything was okay, (they looked fresh out of the academy) and my roommate told them, "Its okay, I've been doing this since you were in grade school!"
What are we going to do tonight Brain?
From my experience, I'd say, some manager had intentionally authorized that - just to have a chance to say something (probably about game quality) aloud.
ooor to say something about DRM and on how the whole copyright establishment is crumbling before the eyes of the industry. oh and they still haven't decided to devise some decent and fair method of revenue/income. because the day they grow a pair and make this decision then there will be a whole new generation of business models in the entire media industry.
"Two wrongs don't make a right, dude."
Two wrights made an airplane!
If Google really cared they would fix Android Chrome to reflow text, instead of discriminating
I'd personally trust many of these "scene" hackers more than I'd trust Sony to not to try to pwn my machine.
I would trust a random stripper more than Sony.
Ubisoft, apparently.
This poo is cold.
They should really sign their packages.
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