Game Pirates Celebrate Fall of Denuvo’s Brand New Protection

[shamu726]

A new version of the Denuvo anti-piracy technology that was supposed to prevent games being cracked quickly has been defeated in a month. As usual, pirates are celebrating, but this time it's a bit more personal. When raising funding for their game 2Dark the makers promised no DRM, so the cracking of their title is being viewed as particularly sweet.

 

When file-sharing was first getting off the ground, groups like the RIAA and MPAA were public enemy number one. They’re not exactly popular now but neither receive the hatred liberally poured on Denuvo.

 

The brainchild of Austria-based Denuvo Software Solutions GmbH, Denuvo is an anti-tamper technology designed to protect underlying DRM products. It’s been successfully deployed on gaming titles but just recently it’s iron skin has been showing the cracks.

 

After all previous versions were defeated, in January version three of Denuvo fell to pirates with the release of Resident Evil 7: Biohazard just five days after its street date. It was a landmark moment for a scene that had grown accustomed to Denuvo-protected games trickling down into the piracy scene months after their retail debut.

 

But while celebrations got underway, it seemed unlikely that Denuvo would simply sit back and take a beating. Indeed, within days of the crack, Denuvo marketing director Thomas Goebl told Eurogamer that improvements to Denuvo were underway.

 

“As always, we continue working to improve our solution to create security updates for upcoming Anti-Tamper versions. We will do the same with the learning from this bypass,” Goebl said.

 

With all eyes primed for a release of a game using the new technology (the cracking scene has labeled it Denuvo v4), earlier this month Mass Effect Andromeda was cracked by CPY, the group behind most of Denuvo’s recent pain. Despite some early claims, the title was actually protected by v3, so the big test was yet to arrive.

 

Yesterday it did so, in some style.

 

With its usual fanfare, cracking group CPY announced that it had defeated Denuvo v4 protection on 2Dark, a lesser-known stealth adventure game from the creator of Alone in the Dark.

 

 

As seen from the dates in the release notes above, the crack took a little over a month following 2Dark’s street date. Denuvo are still likely to claim that as a victory, since the first few weeks of sales were allowed to go ahead piracy-free. However, it’s worth keeping in mind that this is the new version of Denuvo which was supposed to put the anti-tamper company back out in front.

 

 

With celebrations now at fever pitch in game piracy land, there’s an interesting angle to the cracking of 2Dark. First of all, it’s apparent that the majority of people are more excited about Denuvo v4 being cracked than they are at the prospect of playing the game. However, the cracking of 2Dark is being seen as particularly sweet for other reasons.

 

About a month ago, a poster to Reddit’s /r/crackwatch highlighted that the developers of 2Dark had made some promises they later failed to keep.

 

It appears that during a 2014 crowdfunding campaign (French) for 2Dark, developer Gloomywood was asked whether there would be any DRM added to the game. For many game players this would be a deal-breaker, especially if they were the ones financing the game. Here’s the assurance that contributors received back.

 

 

On the game’s Steam page, the truth later emerged with a note confirming that the title would incorporate “3rd-party DRM: Denuvo Antitamper.” According to a subsequent interview with Techraptor, that was a result of Gloomywood having to team up with publisher Bigben Interactive who insisted on the protection.

 

Now all eyes are turning to potential forthcoming releases from CPY, each protected by Denuvo v4. Will Nier Automata, Dead Rising 4, and Bulletstorm: Full Clip Edition fall as well? It probably won’t be long before we find out.

 

 

Source: TorrentFreak

 

[Karlston]

If it's done in code, it can be broken...

[SnakeMasteR]

CPY does have very talented individuals, individuals the copyright holders would love to get their slimey hands on, they've probably tried already to convince them to work for the dark side, to get the cookies, if you know what i mean.

 

It's not a secret that lots of people from "the scene" already went to the other side, to feed their families. Depending on how good the offers are, we might see a decline in mentioned workarounds in the future.

 

Otherwise, the industry sucks, being a whore wanting cheap contractors. 

[DKT27]

It's very important that this particular group stays fine. Too many big groups have been raided before this for them or the downloaders to be careless about it.

 

Also, I still really think these group has some insider information about this.

[KamenRiderBlack]

Buy the games, don't be a cheapo.

[haxzion]

I have bought many games in the past including some tittles from EA Games but their support sucks beyond recognition.

They are using a third company anti cheat engine that actually allows cheats and even a 10 year old can rent a server and kick or ban anyone he wants.

No wonder why they were voted " Worst Company in America"

[Sylence]

Use Steam, their VAC anti cheat fucks cheaters in the -you know where- because it doesn't tolerate cheaters at all, doesn't give cheaters a second Chance, it's permanent and has 0 false flags because VAC waits till it gets proof and then bans.

[DKT27]

On 15/4/2017 at 10:17 AM, KamenRiderBlack said:

Buy the games, don't be a cheapo.

 

Many of us do, many of us cannot afford the expensive ones, many of us try before we buy them.

 

However, there is a trend I see on Steam, lot of Steam players, even the single game players, do not mind either buying games or softwares, which is very good and it shows how good Steam has done to the PC, not just the gaming but softwares too.

[thunderpants]

On 15/04/2017 at 11:32 PM, saeed_dc said:

Use Steam, their VAC anti cheat fucks cheaters in the -you know where- because it doesn't tolerate cheaters at all, doesn't give cheaters a second Chance, it's permanent and has 0 false flags because VAC waits till it gets proof and then bans.

You say 'fucks' but not 'arse /ass ' ?

[Agent 86]

On 4/15/2017 at 0:47 AM, KamenRiderBlack said:

Buy the games, don't be a cheapo.

lmao dude 

On 4/14/2017 at 7:50 PM, DKT27 said:

Also, I still really think these group has some insider information about this.

of course they do, thats the beauty of it all! 

[info999]

34x15 MB ? what kind of game is this ? is this a joke ?

[WALLONN7]

4 minutes ago, info999 said:

34x15 MB ? what kind of game is this ? is this a joke ?

 

Do you have any size complex?! 

There are great games that still fit into a 4 gigabyte DVD media...

2Dark info

[info999]

1 hour ago, WALLONN7 said:

 

Do you have any size complex?! 

There are great games that still fit into a 4 gigabyte DVD media...

2Dark info

I can't remember when was the last time I played PC games < 1 GB 

[WALLONN7]

16 minutes ago, info999 said:

I can't remember when was the last time I played PC games < 1 GB 

 

You've probably missed the chance to play good titles...

[Sylence]

Nier Automata ;3