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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. The patch been pulled, over a week ago! by Planky · · Score: 5, Informative

    Someone was either being very lazy or thought it was funny. I'm glad they didn't censor the forums to hell and back ala Apple...

    Last post from the now locked thread:

    The file was removed from the site over a week ago now and the matter is being thoroughly investigated by senior tech support managers here at Ubisoft. Needless to say we do not support or condone copy protection circumvention methods like this and this particular incident is in direct conflict with Ubisoft's policies.

  2. Re:So... by ozmanjusri · · Score: 5, Informative
    Ubisoft stole a program released by a group who help others to steal theirs?

    CD cracks aren't just for stealing games.

    One of the first things I do when I buy a game is download the CD crack so I don't have to keep track of where the install disks are.

    I bought the game, it's mine. I can do whatever the fuck I like with it, including disabling annoying shit like DRM.

    --
    "I've got more toys than Teruhisa Kitahara."