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GOG basically acknowledges piracy in a meme (slrpnk.net)

submitted 8 months ago by mambabasa@slrpnk.net to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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[-] electricprism@lemmy.ml 55 points 8 months ago

ALL ANTI-CHEAT IS SPYWARE.

ALL DRM IS THEFT.

[-] xor@infosec.pub 11 points 8 months ago

*malware
... also a violation of the CFAA

[-] lseif@sopuli.xyz 1 points 8 months ago

spyware is a subset of malware

[-] xor@infosec.pub 1 points 8 months ago

yup

[-] cows_are_underrated@feddit.de 1 points 8 months ago

I saw a really cool concept for "Anti piracy" some time ago. It works by having a lot of little achievements which represent you progress. So each time you start the game it checks for which achievements you have and the loads your progress according to your achievements.

[-] hikaru755@lemmy.world 11 points 8 months ago

So, basically cloud saves with extra steps, except you only get a single save and can't replay the game? Sounds even worse than current solutions, honestly

[-] Cypher@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

That's just a different flavour of DRM.

[-] cows_are_underrated@feddit.de -1 points 8 months ago

It doesn't affect the performance. It may increase the loading time a bit, but it doesn't affect anything else.

[-] Fisch@lemmy.ml 5 points 8 months ago

Performance isn't the only issue. This system would also not let you play offline, without being logged in and you couldn't have mutliple saves or replay the game.