Will any form of DRM ever work?
Will any form of DRM ever work?
Carson Jones
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Nathaniel Taylor
Not as long as I have the choice to simply not consoom at all.
Parker Mitchell
>a handfull of underpaid sóydevs working 9 to 5
>vs
>an infinite hoard of shut-in hobbyists with nothing but time in their hands
Hmmm, I wonder who will win
Alexander Ross
>Will any form of DRM ever work?
no. and this is one of the reasons why gaming companies are keen on having games running on "cloud servers". your pc/console is reduced to being a frame buffer terminal. you will own nothing and be happy.
>Hmmm, I wonder who will win
piracy always wins.
Luke Flores
What if we just rebel and murder the people who advocate for DRM? Will DRM protect their profits when they are burning in hell?
Dominic Morris
DRM only works with online games. Not because the tech is good or infallible, but just because people prefer to where most people are. And that usually official servers.
Hunter Phillips
the simple method is to get people to stop giving them money. people take money and spend it elsewhere. these businesses only listen when their profits are shrinking. unfortunately people have been conditioned into believing that owning nothing and having everything doled out by the corporation is the way to go. the zoomer generation are fucked. it's all they know. absolutely dead on arrival. those are the people that need to be slapped back into reality. the rest of us old fucks are horrified by what's taking place.
Aiden Ramirez
>you will own nothing and be happy.
it really is true. it's trivial to replicate anything digital. even if they somehow invented a new form of physical media that's hard to crack and cheap enough to be worth manufacturing and convinced people to use it, cracking it would be the first order of business. constraining access to content to a subscription is the only way they can make it valuable now. media is ogre.
Nolan Jenkins
No. It should show you that people spend hours and hours reversing it and then uploading it for free.
Thomas Watson
Yes. TPM-protected DRM in secure virtual machines, with the host using secureboot and remote attestation. It's the real purpose of Pluton - allowing the implementation of next generation, unbreakable hardware-backed DRM.
And getting a platform without it won't help, Pluton is meant to stop piracy at the source, not the destination. It's over.
Nathan Cox
Bentley Fisher
Only program as a service where you even don't have real program only slightly modified chrome that shows you output and takes input. Rest is doomed by definition even hardware backed DRM can be broken.
Lincoln Taylor
Hardware backed DRM is breakable. Crackers will just hop no next level by modding hardware. Custom bios that pretends to have secure boot but instead helps cracker.
Ryan Gray
Xbox One hasn't been hacked yet and it's unlikely it will be any time soon.
Same shit is coming to PC now with Pluton. Encrypted RAM. Remote attestation. No more unsigned kernel drivers.
Shit's gonna be fucked.
Joseph Carter
>Hardware backed DRM is breakable. Crackers will just hop no next level by modding hardware. Custom bios that pretends to have secure boot but instead helps cracker.
LOL you think you can flash unsigned firmware? What, you expect to actually own the hardware you bought? Good one!
Colton Young
Only for extremely niche business-to-business software sold in first world countries
Angel Cook
Pretty sure I remember the papers on Any Forums a couple months back that essentially every time you boot up your pc Microsoft will give you a new key/signature. Then every software you boot up will have to communicate with the cloud during its first boot to verify your identity and such.
It was some convoluted shit but pretty much meant piracy will be dead pretty soon.
I think Microsoft is just holding out for mass adoption before they flip the switch and trap everybody.
Jack Jones
>I think Microsoft is just holding out for mass adoption before they flip the switch and trap everybody.
Exactly.
They tried this 20 years ago with Palladium but there was too much backlash so they backed off.
Now everyone is used to locked down shit and half the population even thinks it's a good thing. Or they don't see the writing on the wall and call you a schizo because PCs are an "open platform" like it has to stay that way forever.
AMDs next line of processors is already cucked and Intel is up next.
Colton Taylor
The only form of DRM that actually works is simply having online multiplayer. No point in pirating multiplayer games when you can't use the official servers.
Logan Wright
Define "work".
No DRM (or any software) will be truly unbreakable but it doesn't need to be unbreakable, only difficult enough to do so that it's not worth the hassle to do it over buying the thing, and that's a far more realistic goal.
Aaron Sullivan
That will never work because way too many gaymers literally have nothing better to do, and are so addicted to the dopamine drip that they can't enjoy doing other things. We're talking about the same kind of people who pre-order digital distribution games.
Mason Taylor
Yes eventually