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Doom, has Denuvo DRM, a very heavy-handed DRM, that is a bit buggy, and has been locking legitimate costumers out of the product, and also blocks many common us
by speeder 10y ago
Doom, has Denuvo DRM, a very heavy-handed DRM, that is a bit buggy, and has been locking legitimate costumers out of the product, and also blocks many common uses of PC games (Denuvo blocks running the game with custom DLLs, including using Wine, and graphics-altering wrappers, and also blocks any modding that affect the game in-memory binary in any way)
I made a post on Steam, about it, avoiding commenting on piracy, saying only about the problems Denuvo creates for legitimate costumers.
Quickly, got accused of being a pirate.
So I just went ahead, and admitted that I actually own pirated copies of Doom 1 and 2, and explained why, and how I got them (it was very expensive and hard actually), got piled-up by people using many of the most absurd arguments I ever saw, but that I guess are result of never seeing how life in the third world works.
For example, many people asked me if I would steal a car, I replied that yes, if I needed one urgently, I would, gave for example if my mother needed to go to the hospital immediately, I would happily steal a car and drive her there.
Lots of people then replied I am evil, because they would just call 911... and that any argument about third-world emergency services was a lie. (while today we have on the headlines, Brazillian police kidnapped New Zealand Jiu Jitsu champion in Rio de Janeiro and stole 2000 BRL from him, and now he is requesting protection from the NZ embassy).
Also another argument I saw a lot, is that "if you really want it, you work to get it", I mentioned for example a poor kid that might work reselling trash from landfill would want pirated photoshop, and pirated photoshop books, to get a better life working with photoshop.
Lots of people told me that this kid should just get a better job and buy photoshop, or that should work harder to get money to buy photoshop with the current job...
I concluded that many people that defend DRM and is very strongly anti-piracy, don't know how the rest of the world works, that people that are strongly anti-piracy, lived lives where their suggestions: "just move out of the shitty country", or "just get better job", or "just save money", or "just ask help of the government", as things that work, and don't know how it is to be stuck in a country where calling 911 is a good way to get killed, instead of getting help.