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Ubisoft's New DRM Cracked In One Day
Colonel Korn writes "Ubisoft's recent announcement that upcoming games would require a constant internet connection in order to play has been discussed at length on Slashdot ('The Awful Anti-Pirate System That Will Probably Work'). Many were of the opinion that this new, more demanding DRM would have effectiveness to match its inconvenience, at least financially justifying its use. Others assumed that it would be immediately cracked, as is usually the case, leaving the inconvenience for paying customers and resulting in a superior product for pirates. As usual, the latter group was right. Though Ubisoft won't yet admit it, Skid-Row managed to crack the new DRM less than a day after it was first released."
troops don't need to play ubisoft games, they have the real thing
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Why does everyone insist on making irrational choices here?
For single player video games, the best option - by far - is to pirate PC games. A pirated PC game downloads overnight for $0 and just works with absolutely no bullshit. In 20 years, you might have to run it in a VM for the old operating system, but it'll still run.
With that option on the table, buying games is silly and even considering doing the console thing is absurd.
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Without pirates no DRM would be needed. Your line of reasoning still proves exactly what I said: pirates are the original problem, not the companies.
What is your fucking problem? Someone somewhere is ALWAYS going to pirate so shut the fuck up and move out of your parents basement already.
And I can promise you even in your fairy tail omg ponnies world where no one ever pirated a game there would still be DRM. Please fucking note D.R.M. stands for Digital Rights Management and not Pirate Control Management. Theses companies don't want to sell a product they want to rent one for a limited time but at the same fucking price.
Please for the love of god just shut the fuck up already you fucking moron...
Do you honestly think that companies would invest money to create DRM if piracy had not become so widespread? See what I did there?
God damnit I'm sick of these motherfucking shills on this motherfucking site...
How many more times am I going to have to fucking tell you to SHUT THE FUCK UP. You are a pathetic piece of shit who clearly doesn't fucking understand how shit works in the really real world.
D.R.M stands for Digital Rights Management those words answer your fucking question.