• Sibbo
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    132 months ago

    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.

    • stankmut
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      122 months ago

      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.

      • Baggins [he/him]
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        02 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.

    • @oolio@feddit.de
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      42 months ago

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

      • Sibbo
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        22 months ago

        Oh great! Then that is no problem at all.

      • voxel
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        12 months ago

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

  • @SmoochyPit@beehaw.org
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    92 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 :)