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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."
Stop being such a shill and materialistic bitch, get over it and move on that you didn't get to play the game. Acting like god damn children who didn't get their candy; wahhh wahhhh wahhhh.
I see all the screaming about how DRM doesn't work, boy have you guys got your heads up your asses on this one. All I gotta say is Itunes and all its DRM works perfectly fine with its millions of users, if DRM is so terrible to the product than why do Ipods and the music store continue to flourish?
I am waiting for some scapegoat answer as usual around here why Apple's decisions are so terrible and DRM will be the end of their business .... oh wait their business is flourishing with the DRM and some of the most locked down system of any PC's.
Another thing funny about this whole DRM with Ubisoft was how people were proclaiming that the pirates got to play it before regular users, how does it feel to lie to yourselves around here while patting eachother on the back about myths.
*NEWSFLASH* retards.... Pirates have been the one suffering with bad cracks and not even being able to play the game, the funny thing is on a lot of pirate forums they have all but given up trying to crack it and at the end of the day they all say "this is more trouble trying to crack it than buying the it"
On the Ubisoft forums all you have is people coming in from Slashdot and trolling around whining about the DRM even though they didn't buy the game.
Just a bunch of trolls going around being bitter about the DRM.
I personally cannot wait till Apple takes over the market, open source crowd will shit their pants and realize how easy they had it with MS. How far do you have to have your head up your ass to realize that people will choose a free download and not some horse shit reason because of ethics and how they hate DRM.
NO... people are lazy and when that avenue of pirating material goes away these people are not going to die because of starvation, they will move on with their lives. But not the people at Slashdot, they will continue to troll away at the DRM cause and other hopeless causes like the 'Year of the Linux'.
Your definitions of “legit” and “pirate” are way off.
This has nothing to do with either legitimacy or pirates.
Any sufficiently advanced intelligence is indistinguishable from stupidity.
Except Busybox doesn't know whether you incorporate their code or not, so violating the GPL and not violating the GPL have the same effect
I realize this comes across as trolling. I tried substituting words to understand what you were trying to convey, and I failed completely. Am I dense, or is there really no difference between GPL violations and piracy?
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)
So... what, this boils down to "I really really want this and I want it NOW NOW NOW NOW NOW so I'm justified in doing whatever I want to get it"? Like a little spoiled brat, all grown up?
I really don't think you're winning many people over to your side, you know.
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.
"It's ok, I'm completely secure as long as my iron is off"
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.
Slashdot, fix your code or at least hire someone who is competent at it to do it for you.
"Price is not based on "greed"
And you just failed economics *AND* you failed to understand human nature.
Ever wonder why we have to haggle on prices? Because motherfuckers are greedy.
Or maybe your just a cheap asshole who has a shitty job??