Game crackers are essential to keep up the pirate movement and feed "alternative" content to torrent or direct download networks . Torrentfreak tells us a horror story that involves important members of the scene and that can jeopardize the battle against DRM managers .
One of the most well-known game crackers, EMPRESS, claims to have been detained by the police and blames officials of the specialized game repackaging site FitGirl and senior Reddit members of leaking his real identity to the authorities.
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The story comes from afar. A couple of decades ago, online piracy was little more than a niche in which few users participated and groups that broke protection systems and those who posted material on the Internet remained in the shadows and were relatively unknown to the great. public . And for the authorities who persecuted them after successive complaints from copyright organizations.
Today, the landscape is different. As hackers have become increasingly demanding consumers, crackers have come to the fore and become increasingly known to users and their detractors with serious security implications.
This is how Voksi was arrested in 2018. A Bulgarian cracker who rose to fame on sites like Reddit and who had to face the Bulgarian Directorate General for the Fight against Organized Crime after the complaint by Irdeto, the new owner of Denuvo technology , the management technology of digital rights that is in the crosshairs of all groups of crackers.
Although all titles with Denuvo end up being pirated (in a day or in six months), it seems that the latest versions of this protection technology are giving more work than usual and therefore the aforementioned EMPRESS proposed the creation of collective financing that based on donations, he helped him crack Denuvo.
At the time, the group abandoned the low profile that it had maintained to date and revealed information that until then was confidential and that affected other greats such as CODEX or PDX, and others of great repute such as CPY who were branded as "selfish and ignorant".
Furthermore, EMPRESS uploaded websites like FitGirl, pointing out that it was somehow who got the credit (and ad revenue) for releasing games to the public, while it was they, the game crackers, who did the "real work".
The cracker group went further and decided to limit the download speed of their latest "developments" to avoid the quick repackages that FitGirl specializes in. All this was not well received by users nor by FitGirl, which has ended up boycotting any of the group's games, not without an exchange of little edifying public statements.
With these "friends" who need enemies, the former members of the scene who are still in the shadows two decades later working for free must think. Those responsible for Denuvo, a really terrible digital restrictions manager not only for pirates but also for legal users who pay religiously for games, rub their hands with these battles.
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