Thus we come to Rainbow Six: Vegas2 (R6V2) which, since its release in March, has had three patches released for it. These changes are not always quick, a point D2D does try and defuse in its FAQ. ![]() ![]() Instead, patches must be reworked by D2D to accommodate these changes. More importantly, since the code around the DRM has been modified and changed to a different system, regular patches from the game developers can’t be used. Game code is modified to prevent the standard retail DRM from inhibiting game play (as there is no actual disc to check for) with Trymedia activation utilized instead. The situation revolves around that oddest of characters, Direct2Drive (D2D) – an online games store, owned by IGN, selling games over the Internet as protected downloads. In this case, the publisher is Ubisoft, the game ‘Rainbow Six: Vegas 2‘, and the Scene ‘no-cd’ crack, yes that’s there as well. If it sounds unlikely, that’s because sometimes truth is stranger than fiction. Something like… a major game publisher distributing a Scene no-cd crack as a fix would do it, for instance. So when something unexpected happens it can knock you off your stride. Piracy can be a funny business at times, but the rhetoric is often extremely predictable. How about "downloads are a lost sale"? Ubisoft clearly didn't believe that last one, as they distributed a no-cd patch from the scene group RELOADED as a fix for one of their games. "Downloading is stealing" is another popular one. ![]() "Piracy is BAD" proclaims every copyright dependent industry lobby group.
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