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The situation was aggravated after Ubisoft's servers were struck with denial of service attacks that made the Ubisoft games unplayable due to this DRM scheme. Ubisoft eventually abandoned the always-on DRM scheme and still require all Ubisoft games to perform a start-up check through Uplay/Ubisoft Connect servers when launched. [151] [152] [153 ...
Ubisoft also used always-on DRM in Driver: San Francisco, which was also cracked. [12] However, the company announced in September 2012 that it would not employ always-on DRM in its future games, [ 12 ] although they decided to re-implement the DRM again for The Crew (despite having a story mode), The Division (although it was never meant for ...
The scheme quickly came under fire after a denial-of-service attack on Ubisoft's DRM servers in early March 2010 rendered Silent Hunter 5 and Assassin's Creed II unplayable for several days. [16] The always-on requirement was quietly lifted for existing Uplay games towards the end of 2010, being changed to a single validation on game launch. [17]
An activist investor pushing for a sale of "Assassin's Creed" maker Ubisoft has gathered support from 10% of the French videogame publisher's shareholders, it said in a letter on Thursday that was ...
They were known for releasing copies of games which used Steam licensing and also for emulating Ubisoft's Uplay digital rights management protection. They were accused [ 6 ] by the warez group SKIDROW of stealing their code to crack Trials Fusion , something CODEX denied, [ 7 ] [ self-published source ] stating that they had written their own ...
Denuvo Anti-Tamper is an anti-tamper and digital rights management (DRM) system developed by the Austrian company Denuvo Software Solutions GmbH. The company was formed from a management buyout of DigitalWorks, the developer of SecuROM, and began developing the software in 2014.
The court found that video games are expressive works deserving of First Amendment protection and that Oovee’s use of the K-700 did not infringe on Saber’s trademarks. Applying the Rogers test, the court determined that Oovee’s depiction of the K-700 had no artistic relevance to Saber's and did not explicitly mislead consumers. [ 66 ]
The following compact discs, sold by Sony BMG, were shipped with the computer software known as Extended Copy Protection (XCP). [1] As a result, any Microsoft Windows computer that has been used to play these CDs is likely to have had XCP installed. This can cause a number of serious security problems.