





Hundreds of thousands of PC gamers are believed to be affected.

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Ubisoft Uplay browser plugin allowed unauthorized acceess to users' machines.
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Sources: SecLists, Geek, Ycombinator News

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Blaming the wrong people
By disgusted@thieves on 7/30/2012 5:57:07 PM , Rating: 2
Everyone upset at Ubi for trying to protect their investment, you are blaming the wrong people. You should be blaming all the thieves in the world who forced Ubi to do something to protect their property.
If there weren't thieves in the world, there would be no DRM.

RE: Blaming the wrong people
By Motoman on 7/30/2012 5:59:43 PM , Rating: 2
There will always be people who will take what is not due them.

DRM does not stop them. All DRM does is increase cost and potentially punish the legitimate consumer. Therefore, DRM should be eliminated.

RE: Blaming the wrong people
By disgusted@thieves on 7/30/2012 6:09:04 PM , Rating: 2
So by your logic you have no locks on your house, but I bet you do. I am sure your opinion would be different if you were the one being stolen from.

If you don't like the locks on it, don't buy it. It doesn't get any simpler then that. Or start you own software company and don't implement DRM.

RE: Blaming the wrong people

How is that "protecting their investments"?


You are not making any sense.

RE: Blaming the wrong people
By Belard on 7/31/2012 5:08:16 AM , Rating: 2
A CD-Key is all the security they really need.

When the gamer wants to play multi-player or update the game, it can check against the key, no big deal.

But everything else (SecROM7 / limited installs) only punishes the customers. None of the DRMs prevent the piracy of these games.

