Pirates truly have no shame

[Ail]

catprog said:

Ail said:

The Anarchyz said:

Ail said:

ameratsu said:

Ail said:

I'm pretty sure that if you download software of a pirate torrent website you can't legally have much expectations of it being malware free...

 

Depends on the site/source. I don't do public torrents so I'm at minimal risk of getting malware. I doubt many people would risk their account on a private torrent site by uploading a bad copy.

 

I didn't say the risk was low or high.

All I said is that if you get malware from such a site you can't blame anyone but you...........

 

Again, if your company makes the software and it's proven that the malware in the pirated copy is from your respectable and serious company (and not put by a cracker or an outsider to your company), then it doesn't matter why you did it, you're in trouble...

Windows is a classic example, some pirated versions of Windows have malware, but the affected can't sue Microsoft because they don't have any proof that Microsoft put that code there, and if they did, and if there's not definitive evidence they'll never admit it...

 

And so are you for admitting to having downloaded the pirated copy, so are you going to sue me ? Because you will end up being guilty too :P

 

Anyway I woudn't go as far as Twestern.

I would just make my software realize it's been pirated and after a certain period of time corrupt the save game....

That should annoy the shit out of anyone playing the pirated copy and there would be no risk of lawsuit there..........( try to sue me because your pirated copy's save game is corrupted and can't be loaded anymore...)

Don't corrupt the save game.

Make bars that covers parts of the screen with "this game is pirated". The longer they play the bigger the bars get.

The save game is still there and thus they still have their time investment in the game. This way to countiune they need to buy the real game.

 

 

That woudn't work.

The issue right now is that DRM or any other piracy protection is easy to crack because you can keep trying until you see if it is done or not.  Software doesn't include time bombs so pirate can see by launching the game and see if their crack works or not, there's no smart software that knows it has been cracked but act as if it hasn't waiting for a later date to actually react to it........

 

What you need is smart software that realizes it has been cracked but acts normally, waiting for the right time to go wrong so as to fool the pirate and let him believe his work is done and he can distribute the pirated copy......

And when the time comes, only harm stuff related to the software itself  ( corrupt the save or just stop saving for example).Corrupting being a better idea as if you stopped saving 2 months after being pirated for example the pirate would just crack the version that now fails to save and fix it. Mess up the save game itself however and you really did waste some of the time of those people playing the pirated version....