Ubisoft's DRM Cracked — For Real This Time

therufus writes "A few days after the release of Assassin's Creed 2, naughty piracy sites were announcing they had cracked Ubisoft's Online Services Platform. Turns out, that wasn't entirely true. While it was possible to load into the game, players were unable to advance past a certain memory block. But now, it seems Ubisoft will need to draft a new response. A new crack has begun circulating that removes the DRM entirely."

Comments

Re:depends on the meaning of "for real"

[Hurricane78]

Your definitions of “legit” and “pirate” are way off.
This has nothing to do with either legitimacy or pirates.

Re:There WILL be unbreakable DRM, heres how:

[Dekker3D]

problem is: this is not like a luxury good that people will just stop buying. plenty of people are addicted to gaming, and many others simply don't care enough about the crap ubisoft's pulling to stop buying.

games are more akin to food or drinks (can't stop buying, because you can't do without) than tv sets or cars (demand will drop completely if bad stuff happens)

Re:I wish people would act more ethically

[carp3_noct3m]

So buying a game and wanting to play it on a laptop without internet makes someone a "spoiled brat"? The point is that DRM is not meeting the customer needs and wants. And because of that I refuse to pay to get fucked in the ass, so yes, I'm going to fucking pirate a game, a game that deserves to get played, but that the company couldn't get their head out of their ass enough to make it worth paying for. Developers need to start standing up for their rights more, and not letting some penny pusher tell them "if we include DRM sales will increase X-fold!" It sucks, because the game itself is pretty damn awesome, but nobody wants to pay for draconian DRM. And for the people who did buy it, they deserve to be able to play the game when and where they please.

Re:get a clue

[GreatBunzinni]

Nobody that pirates is a "potential customer". The end goal of the piracy movement is that it is all free or it isn't even made, and we are about 50% along the way towards that now.

You are wrong. The goal of the "piracy movement" (does that even exist? why do you make stuff up?) is not to "get stuff for free". "Piracy" refers to the unauthorized commercial distribution of copyrighted works. By definition it makes it impossible for a goal of a "pirate" to be the free distribution of copyrighted works. You need to have commercial distribution to have piracy, no exception. Whatever imaginative blurb that may be said beyond that is nothing more than fictional, laughable name-tagging done in order to desperately try to put a negative label on fair use.