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Rockstar is selling cracked game copies on Steam

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Re: Rockstar is selling cracked game copies on Steam

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Post by robbiet480 »

Reubend wrote: post #2

Could we get some more context than this tweet (which doesn't really explain what's going on)?

The game shown here, Midnight Club II, required the CD to be in the drive to play it. With the advent of Steam and companies releasing older games on Steam, they needed a way to bypass that check. Bypassing a CD (commonly called No-CD) was a very common crack/DRM bypass back in the day. Rockstar didn't want to bring up old source code and find someone who understood it enough to remove the check, so instead they just installed a No-CD crack into the existing EXE and uploaded the thing to Steam.

Re: Rockstar is selling cracked game copies on Steam

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Post by jonny_eh »

robbiet480 wrote: post #4
Reubend wrote: post #2

Could we get some more context than this tweet (which doesn't really explain what's going on)?

The game shown here, Midnight Club II, required the CD to be in the drive to play it. With the advent of Steam and companies releasing older games on Steam, they needed a way to bypass that check. Bypassing a CD (commonly called No-CD) was a very common crack/DRM bypass back in the day. Rockstar didn't want to bring up old source code and find someone who understood it enough to remove the check, so instead they just…

Razor1911 was the cracking group in this particular case.

Re: Rockstar is selling cracked game copies on Steam

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Post by bonestamp2 »

robbiet480 wrote: post #4
Reubend wrote: post #2

Could we get some more context than this tweet (which doesn't really explain what's going on)?

The game shown here, Midnight Club II, required the CD to be in the drive to play it. With the advent of Steam and companies releasing older games on Steam, they needed a way to bypass that check. Bypassing a CD (commonly called No-CD) was a very common crack/DRM bypass back in the day. Rockstar didn't want to bring up old source code and find someone who understood it enough to remove the check, so instead they just…

That's hilarious. I wonder what the license model is for the crack that they used.

Re: Rockstar is selling cracked game copies on Steam

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Post by ezconnect »

justsomehnguy wrote: post #3

https://nitter.unixfox.eu/__silent_/status/16983459248402968... Who could have thought what a company with billions of revenue would use the cracks from RAZOR1911 for IP they are selling to the end users? Shocking!

Does RAZOR1911 have a legal way to have a share of revenue since they are using his hard work?
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