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Ubisoft Steals RELOADED Crack To Fix Its Own Game

Saturday July 19, 2008
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Anonymous

at 15:10 28/7/2008

anon 2 under me is a moron. file scanner could easily be wrong.

proof or it didn't happen


Anonymous

at 15:10 28/7/2008

OWNED

btw FIRST POST


Anonymous

at 13:59 28/7/2008

midway did the same for unreal anthology. Unreal2.exe is cracked by fairlight!

Scanning -> D:\Games\Unreal2\System\Unreal2.exe
File Type : Exe, Size : 143360 (023000h) Bytes
[!] -> cracked by FAiRLiGHT !
- Scan Took : 0.969 Seconds


Anonymous

at 20:49 27/7/2008

now i wonder if one of the team members actually work inside Ubisoft

Anonymous

at 18:38 26/7/2008

Tom.Clancys.Rainbow.Six.Vegas.2-RELOADED.rar

Baddog

at 19:46 23/7/2008

Lol triplehijueputas!

Suuuuure....

at 17:17 23/7/2008

You guys are fools if you think "Ubisoft" released this...

I'd bet some junior(ish?) Ubisoft coder was tasked with fixing the issues, failed, then presented this to his managers (as his own work).

His managers obviously didn't dig into the fix itself, either because they trusted their employee (egads!), they were too lazy to do so (gadzooks!), or too ignorant to know how. (zoinks!)

Next, I bet it went to testing where I'm sure it passed with flying colours, as most visitors to this site would expect it should... ;)

Then, buddy was probably hailed as a hero and awarded the great prize of continued employment at his same salary.

Crisis averted! (whoops!)

...of course, only until the retard got busted, either because he trusted he hadn't over-looked anything while digging around in the code (egads!), he was too lazy to do so (gadzooks!), or too ignorant to know how. (zoinks!)

Mr. Hero is probably getting sued alright... but I really doubt it'll be Reloaded doing it... unless Reloaded is made up of the owners/management/whatever of Ubisoft.. ;p

I'm guessing he had to give up that "great prize" too..

.....of course there's also the possibility buddy is IN Reloaded and thought this would be a fun way to burn a bridge... but, I'm leaning towards scenario (A).

=p


stormyandcold

at 12:53 23/7/2008

you can steal my car and remove the security system, but, that car is still mine. Doesn't matter how much work you put into my car, it's still my car.

Anonymous

at 10:11 23/7/2008

This is an interesting point... copyright laws exist for preventing exploitation of other peoples work. a nocd, a modified version of the exe released "free" and with the only intent to use the original software, is really a violation of copyright? or more something like "bypass of electronic protection system" and s**t like that?

Anonymous

at 13:10 22/7/2008

Knightpress, NO-CD cracks can be illegal. They can be reprogrammed .exe files that were originally written by the games programmers. If this is true than the hackers are breaking copyright laws. It is illegal to take a program and rewrite it if it is copyrighted. So, if reloaded simply reprogrammed the main .exe file to break the cd/dvd check then yes, it is illegal. If the programmed their OWN .exe file without the use of the original file then that would probably be legal.

Anonymous

at 15:21 21/7/2008

About time RELOADED tasted its own medicine.

Good on you Ubisoft!


gamester109

at 6:53 21/7/2008

I laughed so hard when I read this as its really shows how lazy ubisoft is getting in providing fixes

Anonymous

at 3:42 21/7/2008

Lmao, insider job.

Anonymous

at 0:3 21/7/2008

They probably pulled it off so they can try to hack the file and get rid of the signature lol

Anonymous

at 18:29 20/7/2008

The Humor x'D

Anonymous

at 16:50 20/7/2008

Offcourse, Megagames only offers Game Fixes. No illegal nocd cracks here! xD

Anonymous

at 15:25 20/7/2008

Let's all quit our jobs! ->

knightpress

at 14:14 20/7/2008

"knightpress, nocd cracks are not widely accepted as "legal" by game devs."

Unfortunately for the game developers, they don't get to write the law, and thus regardless of whether or not they "accept" cracks, they are indeed legal.

"valve/steam would perma-ban accounts that were found to have cracked a .exe"

That is a denial of service, protected by law as well, and their EULA specifically explains that they can, do, and will deny service to people cracking their game as is their ability to do, however they also have absolutely no recourse in the form of a lawsuit or claims of illegal activities, because neither situation is merited.

"bottom line: discs are a form of copy-protection. saying that bypassing/removing copy-protection is perfectly legal is just plain ignorant."

Actually, it's enlightened, suggesting that copy protection is a public crime as opposed to a civil matter is what is ignorant. You see at the very best copyright law may be infringed for RELOADED releasing derivative works, which even if they lost the case would result in perhaps economic damages at the very most.

So anonymous @ 11:47, you have no idea what so ever what you're talking about, and defending the gross ignorance of Megagames for their inane article is equally revolting to your not knowing what you're arguing over.


Anonymous

at 13:28 20/7/2008

the only protection oblivion had was a simple dvd check, nothing to harass you after legally using the game.

Anonymous

at 11:48 20/7/2008

"impossible", not "possible".

Anonymous

at 11:47 20/7/2008

knightpress, nocd cracks are not widely accepted as "legal" by game devs. using a cd to play a game is a means of authenticating your copy of the game (if you bought the game, you should have the discs), but that's possible if the game is tricked into going around that process.

i remember when hl2 in particular was first released, it needed the disc in the drive to play. valve/steam would perma-ban accounts that were found to have cracked a .exe

bottom line: discs are a form of copy-protection. saying that bypassing/removing copy-protection is perfectly legal is just plain ignorant.


Anonymous

at 10:50 20/7/2008

they prob thought to them self, they are releasing craks so people can steal our game so lets steal their f**king crack. those f**king f**kers! who cares.

knightpress

at 10:50 20/7/2008

@ Megagames

Don't write ignorant and flagrantly wrong things like "Ubisoft used an illegal no-cd crack" and pretend like it's news or even remotely correct.

No-CD cracks are perfectly legal in every way, and to say otherwise is not only asinine but only announces your own ignorance of the subject.

Go back, do your jobs, and correct it.


teh_pwnerer

at 8:37 20/7/2008

lol nubs no re

Anonymous

at 4:11 20/7/2008

That's f**king hilarious!

VirtRamp

at 3:55 20/7/2008

reloaded should sue them!!! hahahahahahahah xDDD

Anonymous

at 3:19 20/7/2008

What's more I think this would be against RELOADED's policy

Like they would allow game developer's like Ubisoft to use their releases for their own work n sh*t
Did they even consult them before using their crack?

Fkn lazy c*nts


Anonymous

at 3:3 20/7/2008

all i say is LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

kingofsin

at 0:49 20/7/2008

lazy programers didnt want to fix there own problems :P..... maybe they should hire reloaded!

Anonymous

at 0:10 20/7/2008

RELOADED rocks!!

Anonymous

at 23:22 19/7/2008

'Scene groups' are total dumbs**t dorks, good on Ubisoft!

Anonymous

at 20:27 19/7/2008

Oblivions goty edition had securom or something like it.

Anonymous

at 17:35 19/7/2008

Lets crack it for legal!!! xD

G-Tesla

at 17:16 19/7/2008

I bet Ubisoft hoped no one would notice, pathetic. Start releasing games without the stupid copy protection (like Bethesda's Oblivion) and more people might actually buy your games.


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