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Denuvo is on the hunt for DRM cracker 'voices38' as the company attempts to take one of its biggest foes to court
news Step one: Finding out who "voices38" is.
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Ex-MS engineer reveals the story behind the infamous 'FCKGW' Windows XP key: 'Pirates started baking the key into images or just writing it on the CD with a Sharpie'
News 'The most plausible source is an OEM or hardware partner that received final media early so they could ship PCs on launch day.'
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Microsoft had to change the anti-piracy hologram on the Windows 95 box because an undisclosed government assumed the baby on it was naked
News Microsoft says the government "shall remain nameless for obvious reasons".
The Quake shareware CD-ROM contained encrypted copies of every id Software game—and yes, it was cracked 39 days after release
News I blame those pesky kids.
French pirates adrift as major torrent site nuked by hacker who accuses it of hoarding user credit cards and DDoSing rivals: '6.6 million users. Years of lies. An empire built on extortion'
News The site, now twitching back to life, says the claims are false.
The world's largest manga piracy site has been shut down with its operator under criminal investigation
News It had multiple off-shoot sites seemingly to evade law enforcement.
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During Microsoft's peak-anti piracy era in the early 2000s, it awkwardly got caught shipping Windows XP with audio files made using pirated software
News The giveaway was the name of the cracker, "Deepz0ne," buried in the metadata.
US judge rules that Anthropic's use of copyrighted content to train AI was fair use, but pirating books is step too far
News You lose some, you lose some.
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In the most delicious irony imaginable, the notorious early 2000s 'You wouldn't steal a car' anti-piracy campaign may have used an 'illegal' font
news And no one noticed for 21 years.
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Tiny indie studio realises someone is selling its free games for $100+ on eBay and is totally stoked: 'We're a real developer now' it declares, adding an 'in your face!' to a homebrew convention that rejected them
News But Safety Stoat says you should under no circumstances actually buy the damn thing.
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