Many people in one way or another are “fearless freebooters”, furrowing the world wide web in search of hacked software and games, downloading music albums from file-sharing sites and the new movies from multiple torrent trackers. The lesson is not commendable, and the editors of our site in no way promotes such behavior. However, it may be that soon we will be witnessing the decline of piracy as a phenomenon.
The fight against the torrent trackers and sites that distribute pirated content, is unlikely to save the holders from financial losses. Here, as in the fairy tale about Snake Gorynycha: he cut off one head, and instead grow two more. No wonder the Network is walking anecdote: “the Other was locked for life in Russia. Russian users actively discuss news at the forum of the Other”. In addition to legal methods, there is another way of dealing with pirates is content protection software or even iron. One of these protective systems is called Denuvo and is forced to be terrified even seasoned Chinese hackers.
We will not go into technical details, because Denuvo is far from perfect and, according to experts, has many software bugs and flaws. Essentially is repainted Denuvo protection system of VMProtect, and she, in turn, was inspired by a technology company Solid Shield. At first, hackers the largest hacking teams were very puzzled by the new system. Amateurs play new game for free was waiting for “cracks”, but they still would not. With the release of each new version of Denuvo to hack the game became harder and harder. While one of the most famous in the world of the hacker teams decided to wash his hands.
In December last year Chinese hacking group 3DM, which owns the lion’s share crack modern video games, acknowledged that the protection of the game Just Cause 3 them to crack does not work, and because of the emergence of systems like Denuvo software piracy could come to an end in the next couple of years. A month later they publish no less than a resounding statement, according to which specialists 3DM now not going to crack the single-player game. This was decided during the meeting that was held by the members of the group on the eve of Chinese New year. However, this decision may be changed after a year because hackers clarify: “We will see how it will change the sales of video games in the course of the year, and then we’ll see”.
We remind you that the Denuvo protection, now use games such as Rise of the Tomb Raider, Star Wars Battlefront, Just Cause 3, Mad Max, Far Cry Primal (due out now) and many others. In some cases the hackers managed to circumvent the protection by accident or found in-game bug, but certain games remain unbroken to this day. If such a famous team, like 3DM, washes his hands, what will happen next with the world of piracy?