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The same thing that happened with all the Denuvo games so far: some hackers remove the DRM.
by inigyou 3mo ago
The same thing that happened with all the Denuvo games so far: some hackers remove the DRM.
- drdexebtjl 3mo agoThat would be possibly illegal, requires someone highly specialized to care about each and every one of your games, and assumes there won’t be a crackdown on the openness and anonymity of the Internet that currently allows the distribution of pirate software. We need to have this right codified into law before we lose it.
- inigyou 3mo agoNot just possibly, the DMCA makes it a felony to remove or bypass any copy protection measure, even if it doesn't work very well.
- drdexebtjl 3mo agoNot every jurisdiction has the DMCA, so that’s why I said possibly. It’s definitely illegal in the US.
- inigyou 3mo agoEvery jurisdiction was bullied into adopting this provision as part of every trade deal the US ever makes. Cory Doctorow wrote about it. Look for the keyword "anticircumvention".
- drdexebtjl 3mo agoCouldn’t find it. I know for a fact it isn’t illegal in my country.
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- inigyou 3mo agoIt's coming. https://www.iipa.org/files/uploads/2026/01/BRAZIL-2026-COPYEDITED-12.23.25-2.pdf https://www.iipa.org/files/uploads/2026/01/BRAZIL-2026-COPYE... (Search "circumvention")
- drdexebtjl 3mo agoThere’s a huge difference between the US bullying us into making this illegal, and the US throwing a fit in a report suggesting we should do it. We’ve been on this watchlist before. There’s no such law being proposed right now.
- mindlessg 3mo agoRemoving DRM is all fun and games until single player titles start requiring constant internet access in the future.
- inigyou 3mo agoDenuvo requires internet access. It's been cracked anyway. Do you know about this tool called Ghidra? It makes most programs open source. Not the ones with DRM, though.
- throwawayffffas 3mo agoThe next step they want to take is not have you use your own hardware at all and just stream it to you, so you don't even have a copy.