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Denuvo-Protected Games Rendered Unplayable After Domain Expires

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Re: Denuvo-Protected Games Rendered Unplayable After Domain Expires

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Post by LegitShady »

toxik wrote: post #53
Izkata wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is just one point, but I started pirating games during college because of DRM, after whatever they used in Spore destroyed Windows so badly I had to do a full reinstall and lost a bunch of stuff. Before that I reliably bought all my games. I don't pirate games anymore, but that's only because I stopped playing computer games entirely and stick to consoles, to avoid DRM screwing with my stuff.

I’m not trying to be rude here but going from PC gaming to consoles because you dislike DRM is like buying a sports car because you think trucks pollute too much.

I don't think he's saying to avoid DRM, rather to avoid DRM on his computer, which playing via console would do.

Re: Denuvo-Protected Games Rendered Unplayable After Domain Expires

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Post by tommek4077 »

arcticbull wrote: post #54
Izkata wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is just one point, but I started pirating games during college because of DRM, after whatever they used in Spore destroyed Windows so badly I had to do a full reinstall and lost a bunch of stuff. Before that I reliably bought all my games. I don't pirate games anymore, but that's only because I stopped playing computer games entirely and stick to consoles, to avoid DRM screwing with my stuff.

Consoles are all about DRM aren't they?

Yes, but they would not ruin his PC again.

Re: Denuvo-Protected Games Rendered Unplayable After Domain Expires

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Post by nottorp »

tommek4077 wrote: post #62
arcticbull wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Consoles are all about DRM aren't they?

Yes, but they would not ruin his PC again.

Afaik both Sony and MS (yes, even MS) do some internal QA before allowing a game to be published on their consoles.

Plus they don't allow (single player?) games to require registering with the publisher. So on the rare occasions I'm interested in a game from the top user hostile AAA publishers, I get it for console.

Re: Denuvo-Protected Games Rendered Unplayable After Domain Expires

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Post by MisterTea »

arcticbull wrote: post #54
Izkata wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is just one point, but I started pirating games during college because of DRM, after whatever they used in Spore destroyed Windows so badly I had to do a full reinstall and lost a bunch of stuff. Before that I reliably bought all my games. I don't pirate games anymore, but that's only because I stopped playing computer games entirely and stick to consoles, to avoid DRM screwing with my stuff.

Consoles are all about DRM aren't they?

Consoles are DRM.

Re: Denuvo-Protected Games Rendered Unplayable After Domain Expires

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Post by solveit »

agilob wrote: post #59
stiray wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes. "The European Commission paid €360,000 (about $428,000) for a study on how piracy impacts the sales of copyrighted music, books, video games, and movies. But the EU never shared the report—possibly because it determined that there is no evidence that piracy is a major problem." TLDR: https://gizmodo.com/the-eu-suppressed-a-300-page-study-that-... Study: https://cdn.netzpolitik.org/wp-upload/2017/09/displacement_…

>But the EU never shared the report I remember the day it was published, it hit some news, I made a backup of that PDF from EC domain (still have it!), 2 or 3 hours later the PDF was 404.

What did it say?

Re: Denuvo-Protected Games Rendered Unplayable After Domain Expires

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Post by agilob »

solveit wrote: post #66
agilob wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>But the EU never shared the report I remember the day it was published, it hit some news, I made a backup of that PDF from EC domain (still have it!), 2 or 3 hours later the PDF was 404.

What did it say?

The same pdf is now hosted on netzpolitik, link above, but no longer available on EC website

Re: Denuvo-Protected Games Rendered Unplayable After Domain Expires

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Post by agilob »

vimda wrote: post #60
actually_a_dog wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You left out the money quote from the Gizmodo article: > The report found that illegal downloads and streams can actually boost legal sales of games , according to the report. The only negative link the report found was with major blockbuster films:“The results show a displacement rate of 40 percent which means that for every ten recent top films watched illegally, four fewer films are consumed legally.” (Emphasis ad…

I suspect that a lot of that 40% are people who pirate it to try it out before purchasing. What ever happens to demo disks and the like? I miss that

Yup, the only two companies I can trust with game quality are Sega and Valve, all the rest either have toxic communities or had major fuckups with quality, performance or plots, and I don't trust them with $4.99 at all.

Re: Denuvo-Protected Games Rendered Unplayable After Domain Expires

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Post by corobo »

recursive wrote: post #48
kuroguro wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Most registrars have a grace period of 30-40 days, where the original owner can still reclaim it IIRC.

So if I buy the domain, and give it the original DNS records for 45 days, then I could take control?

Reclaim as in renew their claim. Not reclaim as in claw back

No, you could not have purchased the domain

Re: Denuvo-Protected Games Rendered Unplayable After Domain Expires

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Post by corobo »

Finnucane wrote: post #47
mschuster91 wrote: post #6

> After sending a set of questions to two of our usual contacts at the company, we received a pair of automated emails stating that our correspondence was “undeliverable”, that the messages had been “bounced by administrator” and as a result had permanently failed. Wtf? What ever happened to journalistic principles like protecting your sources?!

"we tried to contact the company and couldn't for technical reasons" isn't revealing any big secrets.

"We sent this amount of messages and they bounced with these specific error messages" would give a mail admin enough information to find the sources
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