Ubisoft Steals RELOADED Crack To Fix Its Own Game

By Muhammad Farrukh
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Muhammad Farrukh

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"Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas 2 has been released exactly 4 months ago and until last week a lot of users suffered from copy protection related problems. To fix those problems, Ubisoft opted to release a copy-protection-removing patch for the game.

This is a bit unusual (especially with Ubisoft's history of restrictive copy right usage) but is it newsworthy? Only if it turns out that Ubisoft used an illegal no-cd crack written by famous cracking group, RELOADED, as a fix for their own game.

The file in question was released by Ubisoft as a fix for the Direct2Drive version of Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas 2. When the file is checked using a hex editor, RELOADED's signature is clearly visible in the file's header.

Ubisoft has since pulled off the file and said that " the matter is being thoroughly investigated by senior tech support managers". Ubisoft UK Community Manager added that "Needless to say we do not support or condone copy protection circumvention methods like this and this particular incident is in direct conflict with Ubisoft's policie"

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Old news, Neowin, old news, I won't come here anymore, waah-wah-wah-wah-waaah :laugh:

I have one thing to add, though. No-CD is not illegal, because EULAs (that state a software product is licensed and ought not be modified), afaik, doesn't hold ground in any court. Or if it does, logically, any modding of games is illegal, too, and all modders should be locked the f* up.

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Was going to point out that No-CD fixes aren't illegal, but then saw the article was 4 years old and I think they may have been at the time. Either way, I wouldn't blame UbiSoft so much as I would blame the person responsible. What most likely happened was that Ubisoft higher ups told someone to make and release a patch to fix the DRM issues that users were having, and then that person was a lazy sod and just released the already made crack. Heh.

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hey OP,I found some interesting reads when you need some "new" stories to post.

https://www.google.com/search?source=ig&hl=en&rlz=&q=tech+stories+from+2008&oq=tech+stories+from+2008&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&gs_nf=1&gs_l=igoogle.3...1883.13656.0.14184.28.27.2.5.2.0.156.2013.14j6.20.0.

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Glassed Silver

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This is not in the news sections neither tagged as news so stop bitching

I'd suggest using another tense then.

Maybe simple past or past perfect would have been better fits?

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I think there was even a discussion about this on here. When it actually happened :laugh:

I am 98% positive there was, but for some reason I cannot find it. But yeah, pretty sure no doubt.

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