The new DRM: Public Shaming?

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zynthetic

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...P2P networks, disguised as a fake installer. When activated, the program gathers data from the computer and pretends to take a survey of players, including asking for personal information. Once it's done, everything gets uploaded to a public website, alongside a screenshot of their desktop.

Once discovered, users can ask for their data to be deleted, but must first click a button acknowledging that they have illegally downloaded Cross Days. Better yet, the whole scheme is revealed in the fake installer's terms of service agreement, something no one reads.
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It's actually a great idea though something that will never happen in LawyerLand/US. Also, this is something that would only be effective in it's obscurity. If it was commonplace the people [pirates] would be less likely to "fall" for it.
 
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JaFO

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This is a very very bad idea.
Sure ... it will hurt the few dumb lazy pirates that didn't take precautions, but it will affect more innocent victims.
You only need to look at every support-forum for pretty much any software out there that there are dozens of innocents that have issues getting their perfectly legitimate version working due to the fact that the DRM thought they were pirates.

Never mind the gigantic back door on a computer that makes any anti-virus measures useless.
 
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This is not part of the commercially available game, legitimate players never see this. In a similar fashion to the way RI/MPAA pollutes torrents with fake files, this is a fake installer for the game. Also similar to how AvP and Batman:AA were crippled by burying some code to determine if the game has been cracked.
 
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zynthetic said:
This is not part of the commercially available game, legitimate players never see this. In a similar fashion to the way RI/MPAA pollutes torrents with fake files, this is a fake installer for the game. Also similar to how AvP and Batman:AA were crippled by burying some code to determine if the game has been cracked.
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Haha, this reminds me of a story where some guy couldn't do something in a game he pirated and posted about it on the official support forums and a dev responded saying that only happens in pirated versions and he should check his morals instead of game glitches or something similar.
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Some smart person will put some kiddy porn pictures on his desktop/with a spoofed IP.

The site will be down 1/2 hour after that.

morons.
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Sorry, it doesn't work that way.
 
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