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"drm is malware" is so 2005.
by nekzn 4mo ago
"drm is malware" is so 2005.
- wanzg 4mo ago"rootkits are malware" is in fact eternal.
- _imnothere 4mo agoA saying being old doesn’t make it invalid anyway. What’s your point?
- nekzn 4mo agoMy point is that this saying is the tritest of the trite, and therefore not worth being posted.
- mschuster91 4mo agoWell, Riot Games just today (!) admitted to hard-bricking cheating hardware [1]. This kind of stuff definitely is malware, and your comment aged like milk. [1] https://videocardz.com/newz/riot-games-on-valorant-dma-cheat-firmware-block-congrats-to-the-owners-of-a-brand-new-6k-paperweight https://videocardz.com/newz/riot-games-on-valorant-dma-cheat...
- nekzn 4mo agoYou are confusing drm with anti cheats. In any case, good for Riot, and good especially for their players!
- john_strinlai 4mo agoanti-cheat is not perfect. they will brick a legitimate user's pc. that is the opposite of "good for their players". and even if someone is cheating on a riot game, bricking their pc is obviously fucked, and will end up biting riot in the ass (i.e. not good for riot, either).
- Rohansi 4mo agoWhich anti-cheat has bricked users' PCs? The Riot example above specifically targets DMA cards (cheating hardware) which no legitimate user will have.
- john_strinlai 4mo ago>Which anti-cheat has bricked users' PCs? the one we're talking about, where riot tweeted "congrats on your $6k paperweights". >The Riot example above specifically targets DMA cards (cheating hardware) which no legitimate user will have. you can play league/valorant legitimately, be using dma for whatever else, and apparently riot will still gladly brick your pc. you apparently don't even need the games currently installed! if you have vanguard leftover from months ago when you did play, remove all the games, and then decide to tinker around with dma for fun/learning/who cares, riot will still come after you, despite not even playing their games. even if that seems unlikely, refer back to sentence #2 of my comment: "and even if someone is cheating on a riot game, bricking their pc is obviously fucked, and will end up biting riot in the ass (i.e. not good for riot, either)."
- Rohansi 4mo agoWhere does it say Riot bricked anything? They referred to the cards as paperweights but they don't need to be bricked to be a paperweight, being useless to the cheater due to Vanguard protections is enough. They definitely didn't brick anyone's PC. > you can play league/valorant legitimately, be using dma for whatever else I don't think there's a way to check what memory a DMA card is accessing. I also don't see why legitimate users would have a DMA card. I think it's fair for them to assume a connection is there and react.
- 4chandaily 4mo ago"We have to stop the nazis" is so 1940s. "Congress is engaged in a witch hunt" is so 1950s. "Civil rights should be applied to everyone" is so 1960s. "Fossil Fuels are destroying the plant" is so 1970s. "Unregulated free trade is dangerous" is so 1980s. "The police are out of control and unduly target minorities" is so 1990s. Something being old doesn't make it less relevant or important. It means we need to say it louder, because for some reason the point hasn't been made clearly enough yet.
- nekzn 4mo ago[flagged]
- nosioptar 4mo agoDude, nothing they said had anything to do with left handedness...
- avazhi 4mo ago[flagged]
- 4chandaily 4mo ago:-*
- freedomben 4mo agoEvery day there are new people coming online and/or of age who weren't aware or even alive in 2005. They too need to know that DRM is malware.