Developers get last laugh at pirates

Mahnsikir

Mahnsikir

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For once its not the pirates laughing at the game developers and publishers as they download their torrents.

http://www.destructoid.com/drm-we-can-back-humiliating-pirates-for-fun-and-profit-169383.phtml

A fake trojan has been released online, hiding within a fake installer for Cross Days. Once installed, the trojan will then gather data from the pirate's computer and poses a fake survey for the player to fill out. Once the survey is done and the program is finished gathering data, everything is posted to a public Web site, alongside a screenshot of the "victim's" desktop.
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While not really DRM as such, its certainly in the right direction compared to Ubisoft's as it only effects the pirates and not the paying customers who went out and bought it. It does seem kinda creepy to me the way that they've done it but they were pirates and it was in the EULA so ha! Serves them right. :)

Also some of the results of it here ****warning crazy Japanese website****
 
Wouldn't any sensible person just scan their download with an A/V with a heuristics function to detect this first?

The risk of virus infection is usually an everyday thing for pirates, though it's one small victory for the good guys at last.
 
Hold on, according to your quote it's a fake trojan (?), hiding in a fake installer, posing as a fake questionnaire...

Is anyone else as confused by the wording as I am?
 
Oh that will work perfectly, right up until the first pirate downloads it and then posts on the torrents comments about it being a fake.

If this was real, why would they release info about it anyway?

And yes Foxeye, I didn't really get it either.
 
Also this is highly illegal, if it was discovered that a certain company was known to be responsible for it then they would have a tough legal battle on their hands.
 
RobH said:
Also this is highly illegal, if it was discovered that a certain company was known to be responsible for it then they would have a tough legal battle on their hands.
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Article says it's all in the terms and conditions that you agree to when you install the program :p
 
FoxEye said:
Is anyone else as confused by the wording as I am?
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Yeah its odd wording, don't know why they just didnt say an altered version was released as a torrent that had a slightly altered EULA and some new code that included the name and shame survey stuff.
 
poses a fake survey for the player to fill out.
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Lol, who on earth fills those in anyhow :D, it's like the installer asking if you want to register the game, nobody does that either.


Stupid people for not downloading checked and verified releases.
 
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hahaha

but doesn't that make the company as bad as the pirate in the first place...but than again often the best things to use in a fight is onces own tatics
 
Hotwired said:
*snigger*

Someones screenshot caught them reading a porn story :D
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wiki

Cross Days (クロスデイズ, Kurosudeizu?) is a Japanese erotic visual novel developed by 0verflow with publishing by Stack Ltd. for the PC, released on March 19, 2010. It is the third game in the School Days franchise, succeeding Summer Days.

Cross Days, in typical visual novel fashion, is essentially played by watching and listening to episodic sequences of story and then selecting, or ignoring, clickable actions or responses when they are presented to the player. These choices are intricately linked to alternating routes of plot, moderately changing the direction of the story as each is made, ultimately leading to erotic scenes between characters and one of various endings. In order for the player to watch all the possible endings, he or she will effectively have to replay through the game several times, making different selections along the way.
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What a strange game, if thats what its meant to be.
 
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