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Sunday, March 7, 2010

Ubisoft's Newest DRM Cracked On Day One

A week or two back I made a post talking about Ubisoft's latest DRM for all of their PC releases. This particular DRM is surely one of the most aggressive I've seen in a long time, as it requires you to be online all the time, even while playing a singleplayer mode. The first title to ship with Ubisoft's newest DRM was "Silent Hunter 5", but things didn't go as expected...
A group of "hackers" have already busted through this new DRM, making Ubisoft's plan to slow down pirate already broken. Most people knew that this DRM was bound to be cracked eventually, as with most PC games, but few thought it to happen this fast.
I personally am not a fan of this particular DRM, but I find pirating games to be a much greater offense. The problem I have with pirating isn't only that developers and publishers don't see a cent for all their hard work, but also that it ruins things for the everyone else.
If pirating had never become an issue, DRM(s) would have never come along to be a giant pain for all of us. Since we don't live in a perfect world however, we have to live the fact that pirating will always be around in many different forms.
I've seen multiple forums posts throughout the week of people saying they should "unite and pirate Silent Hunter 5, in order to show Ubisoft we hate their DRM!!!"
My only response to that is this:
No. You are stupid.
If you want to protest against this or any other DRM, all you need to do, is not buy/play that game. If the game doesn't sell well because the DRM was too strict, Ubisoft will get the message and pull back on their DRM. If you start to pirate the thing like mad however, the only response you'll get from Ubisoft, or any other publisher, is that they have to make an even "stronger/more aggressive" DRM to try and slow down piracy.

Thanks to Amanda for the info!

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