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

    Ubisoft, apparently.

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