https://www.reddit.com/r/PiratedGam...se_patcher_no_need_to_turn_off_your_security/

I am not into games, but there is a lot of drama going on Reddit regarding Denuvo. Some cracker was able to find a way to fool Denuvo, by modifying something called Hypervisor.

Hypervisor - An intermediary layer between the physical hardware and the OS. Hypervisor works at ring -1 level, that is at a even higher privilege than the Kernel.

To put in another words, that Denuvo has no way to figure out that it is being fooled, because the crack is working at way deeper than it can reach. So, all the encryption/decryption, protection is of no use, because the crack is providing the fake fundamental data on which all these things are based, like the Hardware IDs and stuff. It's kind of same thing our beloved R2R has been doing by emulating system DLLs to fake answers to calls made by plugins, but taken to a crazy high level.

 

good! very good.. everything should be free. air is free right? LOL.

 

I hope @Kate Middleton takes over the palace soon and then becomes Prime Minister, because with your slogan and motto, "Everything should be free," you're appealing to 99% of the voting population.

 

Breathable air is free until the rich fucks pollute it to the point that we have to pay for clean air or machines to clean the air. We're getting there.

 

The funniest thing about DRM is that gamers themselves didn't put up with a much lighter version of iLok (the precursor of Denuvo, SecuROM), but people in the audio community bend over to really intrusive DRM that run at all times on your PC, including always-online bullshit...

 

It's complicated. Denuvo deserves a slow and painful death. Not because we need more cracked games. When I download a Denuvo game fully cracked 3 weeks after release, I don't have to deal with it. But because protection that goes that fcking deep into system architecture prevents legit buyers from running a game on Linux.

 

We've long been there actually, in much of the developed, or industrialized parts of the world.

Do you drive a car or Uber everywhere? The air filters you've paid, or are paying for (baked in the price of the car, cost of maintenance or replacing filters, all passed on to the end user/consumer). The same goes for buses, trains, passenger ships, and airplanes. All those costs are baked in the price of the ticket.

When I'm not driving a car, I ride a motorbike: need a mask to keep out the pollution - I'm paying for air.

Do you work in an office building, or office complex? Not so much in European city offices, but in the US and most of Africa, Asia/Pacific - basically anywhere and everywhere there's AC: you pay for clean air, aka air filtering. You might think: I'm not paying, I'm getting paid! But the reality of it, is your employer pays the rent, pays the electricity, and deducts all those costs from your salary. You're paying for clean air, alright - and your desk, your chair, the cleaning staff, supplies, etc.

Same thing with restaurants, shopping malls, cinemas and theaters, even hospitals and schools: you're paying for clean air, or circulation thereof at the very least - all baked into the price of the tickets, service, or goods. In the case of public schools: your parents' taxes pay.

We've all long been paying for water - something the planet provides for free to all animals worldwide; something our ancestors (my grandparents even) enjoyed for free - did you really think you wouldn't also be paying for air?

Last but not least, not to single out any group here (just speaking from experience), but during my first work visit of many to Istanbul, I realized most Turks spend more time breathing through cigarettes than not, so generally speaking, smokers pay too (extra, actually), to breathe air - whatever fairy tale narrative they might be telling themselves about the 'benefits' or "pleasure" of smoking.

Bottom line: we're all paying through the nose - literally, and figuratively - just to be alive in this world.