Huh, I never made the connection that denuvo is from Irdeto, who also provide one of the widely used pay-TV DRM schemes

The article mentions that there are performance penalties to running hypervisor cracks in a VM with GPU passthrough, but if you're dual-booting barebones Arch (just enough to get a VM running), is there really a significant performance loss?

And once you have that set up on a separate boot, then it should be safe and fairly efficient to set up a bunch of these hypervisor cracks, I'd expect.

I don't care enough or have time to tinker with this myself, but that sounds like a more fun project than actually playing one of these AAA games, lol.

Game Pirates Beat Denuvo...

"Oh hell yeah!"

... with Hypervisor

"Aaaand I'm out."

I'm not messing with any of these - seems far too much hassle.

They don't address the elephant in the room (voices38). Does that mean piracy won once again?

Holy fuck, who is dealing with this shit just to steal a game.

You can never, ever trust the client. Client side anticheat is wasteful security theater.

Get your "anticheat" code off my cpu and implement actual security on your servers.

Its still the wild west of this invention. Theres a possibility that trying this will brick your PC.

On the one hand I've already trusted fitgirl with my computer and therefore my life, on the other hypervisor seems sketch even from a trusted source.

I feeel like video games are not a good reason to fuck with hypervisors, and what these companies are doing is fucking dangerous.

Nah man. This hypervisor shit ain't the route. Miss me with that.

Why does torrentfreak have a line with Denuvo's parent company?

I also noted they have "top 2026 torrent sites" up front and center and then mentioned in the same vein that they commit "infringement." Seems to be they are purposely giving them attention so they can be shut down

No wonder they removed comments. Sellouts.