Rockstar Ships Max Payne 2 Cracked By Pirates

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Rockstar Ships Max Payne 2 Cracked By Pirates

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday May 13, 2010 @05:00AM from the its-getting-steamy-in-here dept.

Jamie noticed a fairly amazing little story about Rockstar shipping a version of Max Payne 2 via Steam that was actually cracked by pirates to remove the DRM. The going theory was that it was easier for them to simply use the pirate group's crack than to actually remove their DRM themselves.

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Re:Pirates! Yarrr! by Improv · 2010-05-13 05:03 · Score: 5, Funny

I think they confused "booty" with "boot sectarrrrrrrr"

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I can see the headlines... by thechemic · 2010-05-13 05:03 · Score: 5, Funny

"Pirates sue Rockstar for using and distributing unlicensed cracks."

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1. Re:I can see the headlines... by beefnog · 2010-05-13 05:05 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  "Pirates sue Rockstar for using and distributing unlicensed cracks."
  As fun as this would be to watch, Rockstar's legal Cthulhu can beat up any software cracking group's legal Peewee Herman. Unless the EFF stepped in...
2. Re:I can see the headlines... by Anonymous Coward · 2010-05-13 05:11 · Score: 1, Funny
  
  Unless the EFF stepped in...
  Oh, F the F'ing EFF. I'm so F'ing tired about hearing about the F'ing EFF. F you EFF, you F'ing F.
  God, is that fun to type -- I mean to ill-will to the EFF, that just popped into my head. =)
Re:Pirates! Yarrr! by CorporateSuit · 2010-05-13 05:06 · Score: 2, Funny

I'm sorry, we're talking about "software pirates" which are different from the high-seas privateers which were more prevalent in the 1800's or off the shores of Africa. It's the frame of context which makes the "software" implicit, as the swashbuckling variety would unlikely be patching executables in Rockstar videogames.

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Re:Pirates! Yarrr! by clone53421 · 2010-05-13 05:08 · Score: 4, Funny

I prefer the term “Software Pillagers, Murderers, Rapists, and Generally Really Bad People”.

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Re:Hypocrisy by PopeRatzo · 2010-05-13 05:53 · Score: 5, Funny

If you steal your own wallet back from a pickpocket, you're not going to jail.
In this case, it appears that the "pickpocket" added a fair amount of value to the wallet before it was stolen back.
At very least, Rockstar should put an .nfo file with ASCII art giving props to the cracker(s).

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Re:Pirates! Yarrr! by lgw · 2010-05-13 05:55 · Score: 4, Funny

It's is technically possible that there is a Somalian pirate who is also a software pirate - sort of a double pirate.
Ye scury dog, we knows ye like plunder, so we put a pirate in your pirate so's ye can plunder while ye plunder! Arrrrrrrrr!

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Re:Pirates! Yarrr! by Jaysyn · 2010-05-13 06:12 · Score: 2, Funny

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Not anymore!

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