Quite possibly the worst DRM and most ridiculous idea ever

[NJ5]

Khuutra said:

NJ5 said:

Pyro as Bill said:
Anybody know where I can donate £25 to whoever cracks this shit?

Hated Ass Creed 1, have no intention of buying the sequel but I'd like to help fuck Ubi over.

Trust me, you don't need to donate. The challenge is enough for the crackers.

There's a really expensive music editing program called Cubase which used a hardware dongle for copy protection... it took months and a lot of work, but they cracked it (by making a hardware driver which simulated the dongle).

Piracy as a rule is typically wrong and I do not mean to support it in any fashion with the next statement:

It is incredible the kind of things people can do if they put their minds to it. Software pirates have to be some of the most tech-savvy people on the planet.

Rather interestingly, I was just reading a related essay which sums up in two sentences the reason why DRM is useless to prevent piracy:

Against the average user, anything works; there's no need for complex security software. Against the skilled attacker, on the other hand, nothing works.

http://www.schneier.com/essay-063.html

This doesn't mean DRM is entirely useless of course... I bet they're happy to test and expand the acceptance level from gamers, in order to move to a fully controlled game sales environment.