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Denuvo Unveils New Tech That Will Make It Easier for Devs to Track Down Leakers - IGN (www.ign.com)
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[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Expresses all hate and insults.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago (3 children)

So if they watermark, then this may become an issue. If you buy a game over steam for the purpose of leaking, steam or some payment provider knows your bank account. From that you can be traced down.

So to hide, a cracker would need to have a fake bank account, or live somewhere lawless like in Russia.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Watermarking isn't to stop you from buying a game on steam and cracking it, it's to stop you from uploading screenshots or videos of a game you have alpha/beta access to.

If a game does ship with this, it's also shipping with denuvo. A cracker that can bypass denuvo can bypass the watermarking too.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

According to the article this is a watermark for the game file. Which could be hidden by modifying certain parts of the game in a way that functions the same but results in a unique file for each copy distributed. (Similar to adding a unique pattern of double spaces to a word document.) Without knowledge of the watermarking algorithm a leaker couldn't be sure the watermark has been removed/obscured.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago

So basically nothing will change.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (2 children)

There's no need for a bank account, since you can buy games on steam using gift cards bought with cash.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Oh great! Then that is no problem at all.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

you can top up your steam account with cash directly at any payment terminal

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

Denuvo is great for pushing players to older or indie games, games free of exploitive design.

All DRM is anti-consumer and negatively impacts paying customers. I’m open to friendly discussion on this opinion :)