Comment on Denuvo has been broken, company promises countermeasures against new DRM bypasses — zero-day game releases become norm as security concerns mount over hypervisor-based bypass

misk@piefed.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• Damarus@feddit.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  A custom driver emulates the environment of an already activated token to the DRM. It’s comparable to root hiding techniques on Android.

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  • misk@piefed.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Thank you, I found it - just commenting on how entirely unhelpful this article was.

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    • x00z@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      FitGirl wrote some decent information about the tactic on their website. There’s already repacks specifically marked as Hypervisor repacks.

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• apotheotic@beehaw.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Every single aspect of DRM, whether it is denuvo or otherwise, is either neutral or negative for the end user.

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  • misk@piefed.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Correct but irrelevant to what I’ve said, which is that the performance impact of Denuvo is usually minimal. There’s a couple of very bad cases that got a lot of publicity but there’s boatloads of Denuvo games running fine.

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    • Itsamelemmy@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It’s not about performance for me. I’m not paying for a single player offline game that requires internet. I was around for the Spore DRM. That started with 3 activations and having to call EA for more. Even the current 5 activations per day is too restrictive, as I’ve heard changing proton version counts as an activation. If I don’t own it (yes technically you don’t steam games, but I think I could easily bypass steam protection and still play my games if it came down to it) I’m not buying it.

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      • misk@piefed.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        How is that relevant to anything I’ve said.

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    • apotheotic@beehaw.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      article goes into why Denuvo is bad but not much more (which is debatable…

      I mentioned why denuvo is bad. I wasn’t replying specifically to your argument about performance, because that’s only a slice of the reason why denuvo is bad.

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