Hacker Group Claims Real Ubisoft DRM Crack

[Brandon237]

I hope all the people part of skid row end up homeless with ubisoft dancing on there money from a copyright violation lawsuit.

Why is my Ubisoft employee Geiger counter ticking right now? You honestly want Ubisoft to have a reason to make more DRM like this. I have a slightly unstable internet and cannot play this at all. I also convinced 3 of my friends with similar internet problems to do not buy it.

Hmmm, you couldn't be a ubi employee as this would be self sabotage. Surely you would want your company to realize their mistake and please their customers?

this has nothing to do with what skid row did, they broke the law putting up a pirated drm free version of the game on the internet. and for this I wish, them and all there family great harm and a life of poverty and destitution.

Harsh much? This is one of those robber sues family kinda legal issues. Judging by this response, you clearly think that ubisoft are losing business. Err, wrong. If it convinces ubi not to make stupid DRM, their sales will be much higher for new games that are user friendly. From the responses on this thread, I would say that skid row actually convinced some people to buy AC2.

 

[puffenstuff]

And for future games also, many people like myself won't touch a Ubisoft game while this DRM is still intact, this includes consoles.

I hear that.
I am boycotting all Ubisoft releases, on all platforms until they remove this atrocity of a DRM scheme.

One gamer might not make a difference, but I'll be damned if they'll ever see any of my money!

Hells yeah!

I hope all the people part of skid row end up homeless with ubisoft dancing on there money from a copyright violation lawsuit.

Why is my Ubisoft employee Geiger counter ticking right now? You honestly want Ubisoft to have a reason to make more DRM like this. I have a slightly unstable internet and cannot play this at all. I also convinced 3 of my friends with similar internet problems to do not buy it.

Hmmm, you couldn't be a ubi employee as this would be self sabotage. Surely you would want your company to realize their mistake and please their customers?

this has nothing to do with what skid row did, they broke the law putting up a pirated drm free version of the game on the internet. and for this I wish, them and all there family great harm and a life of poverty and destitution.

Harsh much? This is one of those robber sues family kinda legal issues. Judging by this response, you clearly think that ubisoft are losing business. Err, wrong. If it convinces ubi not to make stupid DRM, their sales will be much higher for new games that are user friendly. From the responses on this thread, I would say that skid row actually convinced some people to buy AC2.

And I hope skid row is rewarded with a massive lawsuit that leaves them all homeless for there good work.

Unlikely in the extreme. First you have to find skid row.... which may be possible but very difficult. Even then, they may be citizens of a country that does not have draconian DMCA-like laws, in which case what they did was legal. Given their poor English I would even say this is likely. Sounds like you are SOL.

 

[ark123]

I love the "dicking around with warez site" part when this site has done 100s of piratebay.org stories.

Reporters don't have to dig in torrents and warez sites themselves to retell a story from another site and offer their take on it.

My point was that warez sites and piratebay have about as much in common as CNN.com and perezhilton.com

 

[Brandon237]

I hope all the people part of skid row end up homeless with ubisoft dancing on there money from a copyright violation lawsuit.

Why is my Ubisoft employee Geiger counter ticking right now? You honestly want Ubisoft to have a reason to make more DRM like this. I have a slightly unstable internet and cannot play this at all. I also convinced 3 of my friends with similar internet problems to do not buy it.

Hmmm, you couldn't be a ubi employee as this would be self sabotage. Surely you would want your company to realize their mistake and please their customers?

this has nothing to do with what skid row did, they broke the law putting up a pirated drm free version of the game on the internet. and for this I wish, them and all there family great harm and a life of poverty and destitution.

Harsh much? This is one of those robber sues family kinda legal issues. Judging by this response, you clearly think that ubisoft are losing business. Err, wrong. If it convinces ubi not to make stupid DRM, their sales will be much higher for new games that are user friendly. From the responses on this thread, I would say that skid row actually convinced some people to buy AC2.

And I hope skid row is rewarded with a massive lawsuit that leaves them all homeless for there good work.

It's THEIR good work, not THERE good work. So they deserve homelessness for sending a message to ubisoft that could bring positive change and for giving many a reason to buy their good game. Sounds reasonable.

I love you skid row. You may have made a great turning point in Ubisoft's history. One which may once more make them a paragon of good ideas...

 

[Blue Musician]

Isn't Skidrow also a famous pirate games distributor on the torrents websites (The Pirate Bay, etc)?
Anyway, like Garret once said:

What is locked, can be opened; what is hidden, can be found; what is yours, can be mine...

I'd bet that Skidrow included on the phrase:
"and what has DRM or any other damn stupid protection that makes legit users kinda a painful life can be cracked!"

 

[evilentity]

Good stuff. Not going to buy any Ubi shit with drm. This gif sums it up perfectly
http://i.imgur.com/rGN4K.gif

 

[7ru7h]

I hope all the people part of skid row end up homeless with ubisoft dancing on there money from a copyright violation lawsuit.

I'm not sure its a copyright violation to disable DRM.

It might violate the EULA, but if they explicitly say they aren't doing it for money, then most courts will end up viewing it the same way other cheats/mods for games are viewed.

That is to say, it has no legal ramifications what so ever.

Well, in American Federal courts that handle copyright violations anyway, I don't know about French courts... (But if Skid Row aren't French Citizens, can they be dragged to a French court over DRM? I doubt it.)

Well, if they are in the US, they could be brought up on charges for violating the anti-circumvention clause of the DMCA. Also, if the ACTA "treaty" gets pushed through by lobbyists (who I hope burn in the lowest level of hell), the rest of the world can expect to have copy right laws that make the draconian DMCA look like a picnic.

 

[7ru7h]

I hope all the people part of skid row end up homeless with ubisoft dancing on there money from a copyright violation lawsuit.

Why is my Ubisoft employee Geiger counter ticking right now? You honestly want Ubisoft to have a reason to make more DRM like this. I have a slightly unstable internet and cannot play this at all. I also convinced 3 of my friends with similar internet problems to do not buy it.

Hmmm, you couldn't be a ubi employee as this would be self sabotage. Surely you would want your company to realize their mistake and please their customers?

this has nothing to do with what skid row did, they broke the law putting up a pirated drm free version of the game on the internet. and for this I wish, them and all there family great harm and a life of poverty and destitution.

Harsh much? This is one of those robber sues family kinda legal issues. Judging by this response, you clearly think that ubisoft are losing business. Err, wrong. If it convinces ubi not to make stupid DRM, their sales will be much higher for new games that are user friendly. From the responses on this thread, I would say that skid row actually convinced some people to buy AC2.

And I hope skid row is rewarded with a massive lawsuit that leaves them all homeless for there good work.

It's THEIR good work, not THERE good work. So they deserve homelessness for sending a message to ubisoft that could bring positive change and for giving many a reason to buy their good game. Sounds reasonable.

I love you skid row. You may have made a great turning point in Ubisoft's history. One which may once more make them a paragon of good ideas...

I think every person who works with Ubisoft's Drm dept, are anti gaming activists who want to destroy the gaming industry and should all be homeless bums. and Im not joking, I like the crazy anti gaming lawyer more then them.

FTFY. Seriously though, its not the pirates who are making it hard for the industry, its stupid people who design "better" ways to protect content that only ends up hurting the legit customers, and the stupid people who support these decisions.

The thing that I find funny in a horrible sense, is the fact that no matter what I do in these situations, I end up hurting the industry. If I buy the game I want, I hurt the industry by promoting this sort of stupid behavior; if I pirate, I hurt the industry by taking a product without paying; and if I vote with my wallet and don't buy or pirate the game I hurt the industry by making them think that PC gaming is not a viable platform. Any way you look at it, I lose.

 

[Prof. Monkeypox]

If skid row's actions are even technically illegal, they shouldn't be. This crack should only make the game more fun for the legitimate buyers (and might even boost AC2's sales).

I hate the pirates, but I'm even more mad that piracy caused this obnoxious DRM that causes legitimate owners of games to be penalized

 

[AngryPuppy]

If it is Skid Row making the claim I wouldn't be surprised. They are very good at what they do.

 

[Yopaz]

It took a month and a half to break the unbreakable pirate proof code, code which has basically prevented legitimate users from enjoying the game a lot of times.

It might have taken a little longer, but this shows just how pointless this round of DRM was. Pirates: 1 Ubisoft: I think we may well be into minus figures now.

I hear ya. I read a review of Settlers the other day and the game lost a perfect score because of the DRM (from 6 to 5 which would mean from 100 to 83 on a 100 point score). This is good news for both pirates and those who bought it. What Ubisoft managed to do by their immortal DRM was piss people off and challenge hackers.

 

[Super Jamz]

This is probably the one time hacking a game is actually a good thing. Ubisoft are probably a bit miffed but let's be honest they're just pissed their DRM couldn't stop people who thought it was BS anyway.

 

[Plurralbles]

Ironically, I expect the PC sales for AC2 will have jumped now that people know that they can remove the obnoxious DRM.

in a perfect world that is exactly what would happen. But no, they'll instead just pirate the entire game and either sales will be the same, or sales will drop. Gamers use this argument all the time, "Pirates aren't consumers and not every pirate copy is a lost sale" but it works in the other way that people who weren't going to buy the game at launch aren't going to buy it now either.

Yes, anyone who doesn't buy the game at launch is a lost sale.

Wait, what?

my meaning was that if someone didn't buy it earlier, to think that they would buy it now with the, "free" option or at least now that the DRM is neutralized probably isn't accurate for as many as some might think or hope.

 

[Brandon237]

I hope all the people part of skid row end up homeless with ubisoft dancing on there money from a copyright violation lawsuit.

Why is my Ubisoft employee Geiger counter ticking right now? You honestly want Ubisoft to have a reason to make more DRM like this. I have a slightly unstable internet and cannot play this at all. I also convinced 3 of my friends with similar internet problems to do not buy it.

Hmmm, you couldn't be a ubi employee as this would be self sabotage. Surely you would want your company to realize their mistake and please their customers?

this has nothing to do with what skid row did, they broke the law putting up a pirated drm free version of the game on the internet. and for this I wish, them and all there family great harm and a life of poverty and destitution.

Harsh much? This is one of those robber sues family kinda legal issues. Judging by this response, you clearly think that ubisoft are losing business. Err, wrong. If it convinces ubi not to make stupid DRM, their sales will be much higher for new games that are user friendly. From the responses on this thread, I would say that skid row actually convinced some people to buy AC2.

And I hope skid row is rewarded with a massive lawsuit that leaves them all homeless for there good work.

It's THEIR good work, not THERE good work. So they deserve homelessness for sending a message to ubisoft that could bring positive change and for giving many a reason to buy their good game. Sounds reasonable.

I love you skid row. You may have made a great turning point in Ubisoft's history. One which may once more make them a paragon of good ideas...

I think every person who works with Skid row, are anti gaming activists who want to destroy the gaming industry and should all be homeless bums. and Im not joking, I like the crazy anti gaming lawyer more then them.

I'm going to put this down to a complex or very fanatical belief of yours. Arguing is useless. I accept your unconditional surrender or I will be forced to drop the atomic bomb >D Oh yes, I would pull the lawyer joke and I would directly insult ubisoft. They are the ugly duckling of gaming companies. They are the how not to do it demonstration. They are actually being helped by those who have hacked their product. In the long and short run. Use logic and not jingoism for this argument. See the light brother.

Meanwhile I will be drawing up my ubisoft boycotting plans...

 

[ItsAPaul]

Damn Skid Row crack everything. I'd say good for them, but Ubisoft is completely retarded for not only making DRM, but DRM to this magnitude.