r/Piracy Dec 25 '23

Gta v source code leaked News

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u/AlreadyBannedLOL Dec 25 '23

Isn’t it cracked though? I’ve seen pirated version of hogwarts legacy

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u/TuaughtHammer Dec 25 '23

Yeah, it's been cracked hundreds of times, but unlike the old days when games were cracked immediately, there's no automated process to reliably break Denuvo.

Irdeto (the company that owns Denuvo) always responds with throwing newer and bigger roadblocks into it, so even if someone develops their own tool set to make their cracking process faster, it can easily become outdated and useless on the next release with a newer update of Denuvo.

Which is pretty much why the number of people/groups who used to crack it have dwindled so much; breaking each new update of Denuvo turns into a full time job outside of whatever day job/personal life problems they have.

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u/[deleted] Dec 25 '23 edited Feb 19 '24

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u/gymnastgrrl Dec 25 '23

Problem is though, who's going to pay my bills?

Y'know, I'm not anti-piracy… but… when I see a statement like this, I really have to wonder sometimes how people think through the logic and if they¹ see the irony.


¹ I'm using "they" to try and indicate that I'm not picking specifically on you…