Buy Blu-rays. Highly underrated.

• The sound and video quality is the best you'll get anywhere.
• It selectively supports the movies and artists you like.
• You get amazing extras and documentaries about the movie.
• Nobody can take the movie away from you.
• You can rip the disc with MakeMKV to view digitally with Jellyfin.

That's far Cry 6 for me. Bought it off the epic site when it first came out and it didn't work because of the drm. (Needed sse 4.3? which my old assed pc doesn't have.)

Downloaded a cracked torrent, worked like a charm.

Every goddamn time. Do I need to pull out the gaben.jpg?

To their credit, Denuvo has been very effective for the past year. Now instead of playing some games I wouldn't have bought anyway, I just don't play them.

In a perfect world:

1. Game publisher release Game with DRM

2. DRM gets cracked by pirates

3. Game publisher acknowledges the DRM has been cracked and compiles a new binary without DRM and redistributes it to customers.

But you don't understand, this time my DRM experts assure me it will take at least two days to crack this time! (for realsies this time)

If you can't build it from source, you don't own it.

Paying is just a courtesy.

Jellyfin has changed my life.

Why would pirates cut into our revenue!

This topic always reminds me of one of my co-op jobs where I was working with a piece of software to develop an importer for its file format. Getting the software running properly with its licensing system took a couple of weeks. We had the license all along, but it used a license server that needed to be set up on my machine, plus a dongle that it used.

Once it was up and running, I did like the software and one day decided to also use it to produce files for a personal project I was doing for fun at home. Downloaded a pirated version and had it running by that evening no issue.

The DRM just made for a crappy experience for the paying customer and wasn't even noticed by those it was meant to prevent using their software.

Though I now wonder if that was deliberate because they'd still catch that in corporate audits (I think? Not really sure how those work tbh), so allowing individual users to easily bypass the DRM could help them build market share that they get paid for by businesses buying licenses when users say it's their preferred platform.

I've just come back to piracy after such a long time, and things are still the same, it's like meeting an old trusty friend again.

Whack

Yarr harr