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Ubisoft Steals 'No-CD Crack' To Fix Rainbow 6: Vegas 2

Posted by Soulskill on from the fighting-fire-with-fire dept.

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.)"

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  1. So... by Spad · · Score: 5, Funny

    Presumably the patch has been nuked for Stolen.Crack?

    1. Re:So... by kestasjk · · Score: 4, Funny

      Ubisoft stole a program released by a group who help others to steal theirs?

      The monsters!

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    2. Re:So... by Jah-Wren+Ryel · · Score: 5, Funny

      In Australia...

      What do you expect from a nation founded by thieves and other criminals?
      Hell, you guys made region-locked DVD players against the law, clearly your entire justice system is in league with teh pirates.

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    3. Re:So... by Megane · · Score: 4, Funny

      You misspelled "9th circus". Notice the first result? Even Google knows it.

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    4. Re:So... by _Sprocket_ · · Score: 2, Funny

      What do you expect from a nation founded by thieves and other criminals?

      To be fair, that only happened because England's other penal colony had a revolution.

      I suppose the Australian government should be more grateful of the US and follow their lead a bit more when it comes to content industry initiatives?

    5. Re:So... by mxs · · Score: 2, Funny

      There is no copy protection scheme that has not been utterly broken.

      Yes there is - make a product so shitty nobody wants to pirate it, let alone buy it. I hear EA is using this scheme these days.

      Doesn't work. People are pirating reality show games. 'nuff said.

  2. This is awesome. by ElAurian · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  3. License by Timosch · · Score: 5, Funny

    Under which license is the crack redistributed? Does it allow including it in a closed-source project?

  4. Re:French? by McGiraf · · Score: 4, Funny

    All ze Americans are morons and deserve Bush.

  5. Who pirates the pirates? by Carbon016 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Shame on you, Ubisoft! This kind of rampant IP theft is what is killing the PC game pirating industry!

  6. DMCA takedown by ghostis · · Score: 3, Funny

    They should send UBIsoft's ISP a DMCA takedown ;)

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  7. Re:Actually... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    were they black?

  8. Re:Actually... by QuantumRiff · · Score: 4, Funny

    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!"

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  9. But! by Snaller · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Two wrongs don't make a right, dude."

    Two wrights made an airplane!

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  10. MOD Parent Up by houstonbofh · · Score: 3, Funny

    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.

  11. Re:Where do I find these? by despisethesun · · Score: 5, Funny

    Ubisoft, apparently.

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  12. Re:Pot vs. Kettle by Hatta · · Score: 2, Funny

    They should really sign their packages.

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