[everyone]

Fyi, most of them have not been cracked, but bypassed using a hypervisor that operates in ring-1, so it is certainly a security risk..

Personally I've been voting with my wallet and *never* supporting DRM, so there have been some games where I'm just "Well, I guess I'll never play that game." At least I have an ethical option to play certain games now, I'm just gonna use a seperate blank pc cus these bypasses are novel.

[Gigachad]

All software piracy is a security risk since they could embed malware in the game.

[everyone]

Running Windows is a massive risk cus its made by Microsoft and it has ring 0 access to your system. I personally trust a cracker in good standing far more that I would any corp.

[Jtarii]

Cracking refers to all methods of circumventing copy protection. Bypassing is just another way of cracking something.

[branon]

Untrue, cracking software necessitates _removing_ the protection from the executable completely. Whereas with a bypass, Denuvo is still running on your computer, albeit ineffectually.

This has implications - the bypasses cannot run on Linux for example where a cracked executable could. They are not the same thing.

[everyone]

Ehhh, afaik thats not the case in the community. These hypervisor bypasses are considered a different category. Like look at any scene page, they will 100% say Hypervisor or HV for these.

[TiredOfLife]

Last scene release with Denuvo crack was like 6 years ago.

[akimbostrawman]

Not true, in this year alone there have already been around 10 denuvo cracks (not hypervisor bypasses) and more will come.

[TiredOfLife]

None were from scene

[akimbostrawman]

That doesn't exclude them from being cracks. They still follow scene rules.

[Jtarii]

They are referred to as Hypervisor cracks.

[branon]

They are (correctly and most commonly) called hypervisor bypasses because they do not remove the DRM from the executable.

[everyone]

Yeah I guess I was being pedantic. It doesnt matter. The important thing is that Deunvo is getting royally fucked.