Pirates Finding It Harder To Crack New PC Games (engadget.com)

schnell writes: Engadget reports that a few recent top-tier video game releases using updated DRM technology have gone uncracked for more than a month and left DRM hackers stymied thus far. The games FIFA 16 and Just Cause 3, using an updated DRM system called Denuvo, have thus far frustrated experienced Chinese crackers' best efforts far longer than the usual 1-2 weeks it takes for most games to be cracked. Although the article is light on technical details about what makes the new DRM system harder to defeat, it does note that "Based on the current pace of encryption tech, 'in two years time I'm afraid there will be no free games to play in the world,' said one forlorn pirate."

Comments

Good!

[Anonymous Coward]

Thieves deserve jail time. Not free games.

Re:Many people don't and won't buy DRM software

[CastrTroy]

The only reason that DRM is so rampant is because society has proven that they can't be trusted. The law can do nothing to stop stuff from being privately copied, and therefore the publishers of the software have to take their own measure to stop pirates. Similarly to anti-theft tags on clothing, DRM is there because there actually are a lot of people who will just pirate software given the chance.

I agree that certain types of DRM that have been employed in the past (like the Sony Rootkit) go way beyond just protecting the content into the realm of damaging user property. But that doesn't mean that publishers shouldn't be able to use some means to protect their software.