It’s a bit of a rabbit hole, but Rockstar was caught recently selling a cracked version of their game on steam.
A lot of the time the person / group doing the cracking leave a digital signature. Here’s a hacker news link to the original Twitter thread that caused a bit of fuss recently:
Excuse me, what?
Got any links for that? I’d love to read more about it, that seems really stupid but also believable considering our current market.
It’s a bit of a rabbit hole, but Rockstar was caught recently selling a cracked version of their game on steam.
A lot of the time the person / group doing the cracking leave a digital signature. Here’s a hacker news link to the original Twitter thread that caused a bit of fuss recently:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37394665
Jesus Christ that’s embarrassing. And it’s not even one of the companies commonly labeled as “lazy” like EA or Ubisoft.
Rockstar is well known for dodgy PC ports, though.