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Ubisoft Uses Internet Crack To Get Around Its Own DRM

These companies just step on their dicks with DRM. It doesn't slow the pirates a bit while legit users just get frustrated to the point of buying less games.

LOL!
ALL of my games get the NoCD/NoDVD treatment.
This is just funny! They boned themselves! Twice!
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Think outside the Fox... Opera

In my case I abandoned PC gaming all together. Between the DRM, stability issues and rampant cheating, it's not worth it. FPS sucks ass on consoles and Mac but at least I get to play without jumping through a bunch of friggin hoops and 50 hours of TSing start-up and punkbuster errors.

They make it next to impossible for 'legit' game buying users like me to use their products. It ends up being easier to just grab a cracked version off usenet for free.

reply to dadkins
Pirating the pirates!

Gotta love it.

Kind of hard to take piracy complaints by companies seriously
when they do something like this.
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"The trouble with computers, of course, is that they are very sophisticated idiots." - Doctor Who (from Robot)

reply to dadkins
well no CD cracks arent really piracy and arent illegal, yet.

but still wrong for ubisoft to not make their own code not need a CD without leeching off the work of fans.
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[65 Arcanist]Filan(High Elf) Zone: Broadband Reports

They're a violation of the DMCA as they circumvent copy protection.

reply to dadkins
the DMCA holds less value then the speed limit. i feel atleast some guilt when violating that. i feel no guilt when breaking the DMCA, if i buy the media it is mine.
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[65 Arcanist]Filan(High Elf) Zone: Broadband Reports

Add me to the list of those who don't give 2 squirts of piss about the DMCA. It's yet another law purchased from Congress by corporate interests.