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[–] 97 points 1 month ago (7 children)

Denuvo has done some homework, though. The filing lists a Discord user ID, a Reddit account and seven Steam profiles that it believes are linked to the cracker.

Denuvo hopes the information linked to these accounts will eventually unmask the cracker. Games have to be bought before they can be cracked, for example, and Steam purchases come with payment details.

I hope this person has good OPSEC.

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  • [–] 27 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    For anyone unfamiliar, I strongly recommend Michael Bazzell's book Extreme Privacy for a fantastic entry into this world. It covers much more than your typical OPSEC stuff, but it is thorough, well written, and fun to learn about.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    unfortunately by this point a lot of the more 'extreme' things are outdated. the first few chapters remain a decent starting point.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Do you happen to know a book that is a bit more up to date?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago

    unfortunately by the nature of editing and publishing, books are going to be behind the times by a good amount. with how quickly our rights are being eroded, you can look to them for foundational knowledge, but nothing cutting-edge or legally up to date.

    as Nate said in their reply to you, inteltechniques. com will provide smaller updates. privacyguides.org can also be a decent place for tech/software recommendations.

    however, if you're going into the extremes that bazzell does in his book, getting at least one good lawyer is inescapable. that's how you stay up to date with how things actually work at a state and federal level, not some random people like myself on Lemmy.

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  • I wouldn't say it is too far out of date, having just gone through all of it in the past few months. That said, Bazzell does provide a lot of smaller updates in his Unredacted magazine articles. I believe he said he is no longer planning to update the book because he couldn't afford to take the time since the book was being torrented a bit too much (I might be misrembering). Either way, his magazine is really good too. I became a big fan of his after that first book.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 month ago*

    FWIW, untold numbers of people share their sanitized Steam files for the greater good. Very few, if any, well-known "crackers" purchase all of the games they help do what it says on their tin.

    This claim by Denuvo is not just asinine, but proves even further that they're absolute idiots in their field. 🙄

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  • [–] 77 points 1 month ago

    So?

    Then don't put that fucking malware in games and it won't be bypassed, problem solved.

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  • [–] 58 points 1 month ago (14 children)

    I like voices38; they allowed me to finish AC Shadows because the story ending is hidden behind DLC

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  • [–] 42 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    What in the holy dystopia did I just read?

    Buy game, and buy ending too? 😭✋

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  • [–] 29 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    Yup, the story doesn't really finish at the end of the main questline but even the dlc ending felt kinda unfinished.

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  • [–] 23 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Gotta leave the door open for even more dlc if the corporate overlords decree it.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago

    It's also the same format all the modern AC games have had. And the endings in the base game are fine, open-ended but more or less complete. All the dlc did was bring more context to a side character that wasn't really relevant to the main story.

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  • [+] -7 points 1 month ago (8 children)

    In fairness so do most games that launch with planned dlc. And you do get endings for each character that wrap up most plot points in the base game. All the "new" assassin's creed games have done this, you get two or three endings in the base game and the dlcs will wrap up a few remaining threads not covered in the base. Base game endings are left a little open because it's an ongoing game series but they absolutely wrap up the main plot, it's a bit misleading to say the ending is locked behind dlc when it's really just one ancillary plot thread that gets explored and resolved.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    Isn't one of the mcguffins you're chasing in the dlc? That counts as the actual ending being hidden to me. The rest is just arguments against planned dlc.

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  • [–] -3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    There's macguffins left and right. The dlc in shadows is mostly around one characters past relationship that was tangential but not directly relative to any of the narrative elements in the base game.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Ok didnt want to say this because of spoilers but:

    I was talking about the three red boxes; third is in the dlc

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    They're still only tangentially related to the game's primary revenge narrative. Naoe and Yasuke have complete arcs in the base game. I don't disagree that it's a bullshit business tactic and that shadows is probably the worst ac in that regard, but it does have multiple endings more or less on par with Odyssey or Valhalla in terms of wrapping up loose threads. It's assassin's creed, they all leave dozens of loose threads.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    In fairness; STFU. Not fully fleshing out a game with planned intent on releasing doc can go to hell. Games were a hell of a lot more engaging when you had to put out effort to unlock characters or skins or weapons instead of buying them, and the end of an RPG wrapped everything up and felt complete.

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  • [–] -4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Games were an order of magnitude smaller scale then. If you don't like sprawling open world narratives with hundreds of hours of quality content and gameplay, don't fuckin play em. Ubisoft and AC deserve shit for their hostile implementation of mtx and always online dumbfuckery. The games themselves are well made and well written. Have legitimate criticism instead of bullshit bandwagoning. The game was complete without the dlc. It was extra story, not main story. Eat my whole asshole. I already said that all games with planned post launch dlc pull this shit because they do, ac isn't fuckin special or worse, arguably they're better because the games are still quality in spite of the corporate fuckery.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Lol. Go screw yourself, shill. Some games are bigger than ever, but guess what? So is the number of people purchasing games. 25 years ago a game selling a million copies was a big deal and the biggest game of the year might break 2 million copies. Last year battlefield 6 sold 7 million copies in 3 days and 20 million copies total last year.

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  • [–] 46 points 1 month ago (6 children)

    I see Denuvo in a game, I don’t buy or even pirate said game.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Hey, ya can't pirate it if buying isn't owning, don't forget. 🫡

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago* (1 child)

    yeah i can. what i can't do is owning it by paying!

    i could by pirating it though.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago

    If it's not a saleable good/product, it doesn't qualify as theft when someone acquires it from a different source than one's "store", etc.

    In a similar vein, the vast majority of "craft distillers" do nothing other than water down (aka "proofing") the bulk distillate they'd purchased from Jack Daniels, et al, and the simple fact that doing so makes it a saleable product enables them to claim "Produced and bottled in (location)", and people just slurp it down... 🤷🏼‍♂️

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  • [–] 44 points 1 month ago (6 children)

    they don't even know who this person is lmao

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  • [–] 13 points 1 month ago (5 children)

    You say that like it's one person. 😏

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    good point, i wonder how many people are necessary to do this kind of stuff nowadays. though empress was doing it all by herself, right?

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  • [–] 8 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    Yeah, and they've been kinda shitty in various forums, too. Can't always be a beacon of hope, I guess.

    That said, it seems to be a fairly lively scene, with many new teams popping in every month. I, for one, welcome these anonymous freedom fighters, no matter their number, gender, or background. 🤞🏼

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

    yeah, i heard she had a bit of a cult going on. we actually had a bit of a drought for a while there, i'm just happy another serious, capable-looking scene handle came to do that work. make sure to seed, my friend 👍

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  • [–] 67 points 1 month ago (13 children)

    "bypassing drm" isn't a crime any more than walking past someone on a sidewalk is.

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  • [–] 48 points 1 month ago (12 children)

    it is in the USA, unfortunately.

    https://www.jurisstate.blog/is-removing-drm-illegal#is-it-illegal-to-remove-drm-for-personal-use

    But then, we also treat walking past someone on the sidewalk as a crime here as well, if that someone is a bored or angry cop.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago (11 children)

    US has ~0.4 % chance of the person living there.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

    That's not the point. They want the real identity so they can charge them and ask for coorporation of the country they are in to extradite to the US

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (6 children)

    How'd you get to that number?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago* (4 children)

    Total world population - US population over ✊ x pi

    Edit: or do you mean the % formula?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    "✊🏼 x pi" seems like a waste of good pi, and a real mess to clean up.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (2 children)

    Wrist x Pi is not a thing in english? "Hangelenk mal Pi" is a german saying for a rough guess.

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  • [–] 25 points 1 month ago

    oh no, anyway

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (6 children)

    Couldn't Denuvo get a subpoena to have reddit unmask that account?

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  • [–] 12 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    If voices did it right, all Reddit will have is a fake email and an IP that isn't theirs. The IP would be a VPN or a compromised/hacked server. Behind that should be another VPN/hacked server, maybe then over tor, etc, etc, etc.

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  • [–] 41 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    Its funny how the free market is only good when it benefits capitalists. The moment someone makes them lose money competition is over and its time to sue others

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  • [–] 15 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    they are NOT losing money. I would never buy this garbage to begin with. I'd pirate it to try it, but once I saw how utter shit they are I wouldn't even play the pirated copies.

    they are not losing money

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  • [–] 12 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    They aren't, but they have the understanding of literal children. They can't process the fact that a pirated game isn't a lost sale, because to them every single person on the planet wants what they have to offer, and if they get it any way OTHER than buying it outright at full price, CLEARLY it must be theft and people are targeting them specifically because what they have is so great.

    I pirated Minecraft back in the beta days, decided I loved it, and eventually bought it (before notch went full mask off and the sale of mojang) had it not been for TPB, mojang would have had one less sale.

    Same for several others. Hilariously, the only time I ever recieved a c&d was for a game I loved and then canceled the online order for when I got the letter two days later. I wanted to buy it, but the letter made up my mind that I was never giving them money again. Fuck em. Dead rising went downhill after the first one anyway so I didn't miss much.

    Executives view life as a zero-sum game.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 month ago*

    TBF, every time some corpo fuckstick parrots "theft", I'm reminded that none of them want any of us to dig into the age-old tradition of wage theft. That's theft, and what they're constantly whinging about plainly isn't.

    "Every year in this country (US), workers lose more money to wage theft than is lost to all forms of property crime (robberies, burglaries, larceny and motor vehicle theft) combined. Each year, well over $15 billion is stolen from workers by their employers; each year, less than 3% of that total is recovered for those same workers.

    Employers steal their workers’ wages in a variety of ways:

    • Paying less than the minimum wage
    • Not paying overtime or misclassifying workers as “exempt” from overtime pay
    • Not paying workers for all hours worked
    • Taking illegal deductions from workers’ paychecks
    • Not paying the prevailing wage in government contracting
    • Automatically deducting for breaks that workers don’t get
    • Stealing workers’ tips
    • Not paying workers’ last paychecks..."

    (More here.)

    p.s. In 2025, that "$15 billion" was actually $50 billion+. 🤢🤕

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago*

    It's denuvo suing, in a sense if the uncrackable game service they claim is now crackable, they will lose customers

    but this is like advertising you are the best and then sue anyone that is better to maintain your position

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  • Some people never learn.

    Streisand Effect

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  • [–] 22 points 1 month ago

    Oldmanyellsatcloud.gif

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  • [–] 9 points 1 month ago

    I hope it turns out that “voices38” was just an AI that accidentally got out of containment

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    There's no law preventing someone from working around Denuvo.

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  • 5 comments in c/pcmasterrace@lemmy.world view that post
    [–] 24 points 1 month ago

    Corpo cry babies

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  • [–] 12 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    About as effective as suing the hacker group known as "Anonymous".

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  • [–] 10 points 1 month ago

    So is Denuvo now suing people instead of providing digital protection products? Seems like a hard value proposition for companies relying on Denuvo - why can't publishers just sue pirates directly?

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago

    Games have to be bought before they can be cracked, for example, and Steam purchases come with payment details.

    I think these crackers get games donate by their supporters usually.

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    [–] 7 points 1 month ago

    Update: responding to the news, voices38 shared the following comment on Reddit: “All is fine. Everything will continue as normal.”

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago*

    Might as well file the lawsuit against DB Cooper they are never going to find them. I am certain they knew this was an eventuality and have air tight opsec.

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