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So if malware announces itself, it is no longer malware but anticheat? "If you do not wire the money, the anticheat will activate and delete all your data"
> So if malware announces itself, it is no longer malware but anticheat? If it announces itself after installation it would obviously be malware. But if the software does exactly what the user expects it to do, and the user installs it with consent, why would it be malware? Otherwise BitLocker or a disk eraser would be malware just because it performs a destructive action. Wikipedia goes by the same definition, it's…
It's not the first time that DRM has caused damage. The Valorant one is particularly bad as no user should expect hardware damage or data loss even if they cheat, but I still 'member Sony's DRM that was a legitimate rootkit [1].
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootk...