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The DRM is, for the most part, userspace and is mainly an authenticaton scheme to determine if you are authorized to play the game.

• jerf 16y ago
  Where is your information from? I can't seem to Google anything up. "For the most part, userspace" doesn't really mean much. It is difficult to imagine the authentication scheme that wouldn't be fairly trivial to crack, given that I have full control over the entire software stack from top to bottom, including not merely the kernel but my choice of hypervisor.
  • duskwuff 16y ago
    It's all in userland on OS X (I wasn't asked to input my admin password at all), and I believe the same is true on Windows.
  • ptomato 16y ago
    Steam is relatively trivial to crack on Windows as well. Certainly nothing has prevented the various Steam games from being cracked wide open and distributed independently.