• Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    This user is a hero for telling people about how easy it is to pirate this game.

    Like obviously he'd be instantly nuked if he just said "bro there's no DRM, just pirate it" so he's framed it as a complaint instead. Genius.

    • eduardog3000 [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Seriously, without DRM it will be available at https://cs.rin.ru/forum/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=123255 within a few hours of its release. We can't let that happen.

      • StellarTabi [none/use name]
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        2 years ago

        dang why didn't they add the DRM so pirates would have to wait 8 hours instead of 1 hour????

        • nine_leven [none/use name]
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          2 years ago

          Unfortunately these complex VM-based HWID-bound licensing schemes (pretty much just the one named above) are quite a pain in the ass to reverse engineer these days. At present there's only one person doing so publicly, about a dozen and change who've cracked it at all in total.

          It's not like the old days anymore, unfortunately our salvation won't be through technology when it comes to preserving games and software. We'd need some economic bloc to realize the danger of DRM for preservation and move to actually ban its use. At the very least, require DRM-free binaries for all public builds, or ideally source code, and code for running dedicated servers etc be filed with the copyright office for release after something becomes abandonware. Most areas have some office that could oversee the processing of requests, LoC's office or something. That's the bare minimum that could be done.

        • eduardog3000 [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          Looks like it's unlocked now. Which yeah the mod said they'd unlock once cracks were available. So the lock was basically to prevent spam of "is there a crack yet"?