Only two people willing to crack denuvo games. And publicise their cracks.
Usually talent like that leads to well paying jobs, well paying jobs usually lead to wanting to not go to prison.
That doesn't mean people don't have the skill, it means they're not willing to use it, when someone else is already taking the heat
Illegal? Probably not, so long as you were careful about not hosting any of their code/data
Would doing it publicly end with you getting buried in lawsuits? It might. Anyone can sue for any reason, and copyright holders love making examples of people
Aside from balking at the audacity of using a platform for piracy as her own personal blog, the community was quick to knock her down a peg.
So I guess you read them all? The great thinkers? To verify how you are above and beyond their thinking? Do you understand how utterly arrogant this post makes you? I will tell you why. To put yourself above thinkers like Arthur Schopenhauer, Adam Smith, John Locke, Charles-Louis de Secondat, Immanuel Kant, Thomas Hobbes, Baruch Spinoza, Francisco de Vitoria, Friedrich Nietzsche and so many others. Human beings who have helped shape the foundation of the world we live in today. I am talking about the most basic of basic stuff we now take for granted like property, human rights, democratic governance and rule of law. Without these ideas and those who dedicated their lives to refine them, our world could not be like it is today.
This was a strong argument, but as someone else jokingly pointed out:
removed shut up, they pirated rdr2
Which, to be fair, Hobbes and Kant never did.
I'm fucking dead 😂
Welp, that was a wild read. Thank you for sharing!
The other cracks football games? You mean like FIFA? Because I haven't seen any cracks of those..
And only football manager
I think they mean MKDEV.
This was a fantastic read, thank you for sharing!
psychotic transphobe who speaks like a JRPG villain
Crab Juice
only cracks football games
Mountain Dew
I knew about Empress, of course, because how could I not? But I've not been in the game piracy community for years, and I had no idea she was this... Unstable.
Holy smokes. Got sucked into that one. So is she still the only one that can crack Denuvo? You mentioned 2, is the other not very active or something?
Both are based in their own charming ways
Pretty insulting when you’re scared of something so normal that doesn’t affect you
It's very obvious ragebait, just don't respond, it's what they want.
I miss mostly anonymous people cracking games without running around screaming from the rafters about gremlins in their modems stealing their breakfast bars. I can't believe most if not all Denuvo releases are now only cracked by this person.
Demand is what causes Supply. Somewhere out there is someone with the skill to crack Denuvo, but no need to, because this lunatic is already doing it. And being the competition means being on empress' radar, which is really something a sane person would not want.
That's wishful thinking.
She can only crack so many games, so the demand for the other games already stays without supply.
The scene was much bigger before denuvo, the supply obviously went down independently of the demand.
Also the demand/supply argument only makes sense where there is payment. There are starving people in the world who's demand is not met bc the can't pay while there are millions of facelifts administered to people who will pay large sums.
Denuvo has succeeded in imposing such a huge threshold onto cracking that from the talented people only the most driven stayed in the game. With no money in it you need to be driven by something else, usually ego. Even if there is a successor to empress chances are that is true for them as well.
I should be clear that I don't think supply and demand are immovable levers by which the world economy does or should work. I also don't believe there's only one person with the ability to do this. If they stop, I'm left to assume one of the eight billion people on this rock with the time and talent and resources to do this will.
And if they don't then I'm just going to have to deal with it because this is internet piracy, my dude. But there's no world in which I'm going to defend what empress does as a vital public service. I think I would prefer that they stop and get help, but I don't expect that to happen.
We wait until Denuvo gets patched out of a game. There are so many games to play, you can survive without playing Denuvo protected ones.
Isn’t it specifically Football Manager games?
I'm just going to assume if she disappears, at any point, that she is in rehab for meth. Lots of meth.
Wait, so crackers don't publish any documentation on cracking Denuvo? They just keep all the knowledge to themselves? Or is it just that nobody else wants to do it?
they keep it to themselves to remain on top. empress also accepts donations, even going so far as to refuse to crack a game unless she receives a certain amount of money like $500.
she doesn’t release info because then she won’t be needed, and therefore won’t receive money for something that many crackers can do
That's crazy. Those people are no better than the companies that put DRM in their products then.
I wonder if we could do crowdfunding to pay someone to write and release the documentation? This way Denuvo cracking would be easy for any experienced cracker to learn.
isn't that sort of what's happening? she wants money for her work, and she won't be able to live off of doing this if there is enough competition. this lady, insane as she is, isn't the problem. it's that finding something rewarding to do, and live off, isn't easy. in fact, it is incredibly artificially hard
granted, i know nothing about this woman's financial situation. im just speculating as to why she wouldn't want to share her knowledge or expertise
Can we blame them? When you invest so much time acquiring skill and knowledge at one point you gotta eat and sleep somewhere.
That's actually pretty strange. Person who is able to crack Denuvo should have superior hacking skills. Such skills obviously allow to work as information security specialist, and such job easily delivers salary of 5+ thousand of $ per month even to specialists who are not skilled enough to crack Denuvo. So Empress asks to sponsor her for the money that she could easily obtain in less than two working days. This makes no sence.
tbh from what I've seen of her, I'm not sure that she has the temperament for a corporate job. Like, despite having the technical skills, she would probably be wholly unable to function in a typical white collar environment.
If she didn't charge it would be free labour regardless. Also if what I am reading here is true and she is russian then the wages are likely more poor than you think. $500 would be worth more in that country.
Sounds like a smart tactic for a hat she wants
Correct, they never published documentation, which has led us to this situation. The lack of "training" for newer crackers is something i even remember empress herself pointing out. There is some crackjng training centering around archaic drm like securom on spore. However cracking groups had gone more and more "closed source".
That's a shame. I wonder what it would take to change that. I would really like to see Denuvo become useless some day.
Probably one of the big things keeping them from open sourcing their knowledge is denuvo though, they download games with their (cracked) DRM to RE and prevent future cracking
and also, empress cracks cost $$$ C:
I believe the assumption is the Denuvo people would fix their workarounds quickly.
Perhaps, but more people knowing how it works would help find new ones faster.
Have you seen her SPECIAL MESSAGE that was attached to the crack of Hogwarts: Legacy? There's an awful lot of hate there, too. What was the need to pointlessly insult an entire group of already marginalized people? Pointing out someone's bigotry and disliking them for it is nowhere near as bad as spewing bigotry, but that might just be my opinion.
Oh. Well damn. Nah, I'm with you on this one fuck her.
The yin yang duality of day/night and hot/cold is so hilarious to me every time. You're the greatest mind ever but you don't know about the existence of twilight or room temperature?
there´s something hilarious about her going on a transphobic tantrum and talking about how she supports jk rowling while giving a out a harry potter game for free making sure that rowling receives less money for it since she still gets payed in royalties(yeah I know she´s rich but it´s the irony of the situation for me)
You should start be reading about the Paradox of Tolerance, which pretty nicely describes why you shouldn't be so accepting of bigotry.
I still don’t see what warrants the hatred you and others spew on Empress, particularly when you do so because you deem awful the hate for a marginalized group.
Why are you so eager to defend bigots? Do you really not understand the difference between hating someone for their beliefs they hold versus hating someone for who they are as a person?
"THE WOKE SYSTEM" of today runs with and "claims" that it mainly wants "fairness, justice, equality and total freedom". But then ... when someone with views against trans and tries to express themselves today, they are treated as GARBAGE and fired/banned from wherever they are, is a clear sign of huge "Contradiction".
This is why I don't trust her releases. God knows what she'll put in them to try and get at her "enemies" during some psychotic episode.
Don't forget the: "I'm the greatest philosopher who ever lived" and "I use visions and astral-states to crack my games" parts
She unironically needs to get help. I can't imagine what she's like IRL if she's this unhinged over something so small in the grand scheme of things.
Gets denied a loan: shits on the loan approvers desk Gets fired: merks her boss
Well, astral projection is real, though I don't know the validity in using it to crack computer games
I’m torn between this and thinking she wouldn’t want to risk the hit to her reputation.
FitGirl refused to repackage her content out of similar fears, though I’m sure the thought alone of FG getting to make a “told you so” post drives enough rage in her to ensure it likely wouldn’t happen.
Yeah personally I'm thinking I'm gonna go uninstall my Harry Potter game 😂 chance sof me ever playing it again are slim and I'm sure it'll go on sale and I'll actually buy it if I ever want to play again.
Genius and insanity are close bedfellows.
She's a damn moron, the people with the minutest of peabrains are oftentimes the loudest about how "smart" they think they are.
When they're too close the person usually doesn't make it beyond around 32 yo...
Empress is a neurotic narcissist who needs to be NUKED at every release and HARD MUTED, IGNORED, AND DEPLATFORMED by every sociopathic rant she makes.
We should not be giving her attention by talking about her; she needs to be SHUNNED into OBSCURITY. Let her fucking philosophize in her own damn isolation. Her behavior is unacceptable by most social standards and her contributions to society are not so significant we can't do without them.
Why does spiderman get to wear tights and assault people on the streets while being called a "hero", while this person fighting the real fight is called a delirious psychopath??
Life ain't fair.
Found J Jonah Jameson's Lemmy account.
Empress has a long history of narcissism and delusions of grandeur. I hate to link back to reddit, but there's a good but outdated writeup on hobbydrama. She's only gotten worse since and is now going hard on bigotry. She's trying to form her own little cult too.
I'm crying this is so funny
Man, this is just the tip of the iceberg. There's a whole writeup about Empress, and she used to be 10x as psychotic
I was hoping it would be a HobbyDrama writeup, but this blew me away, this feels like a gold standard post that I can't believe I've never seen before. What a talented, skillful writer! The detail, the flow, everything is just right - just the perfect amount of background, just the perfect amount of depth. Thank you so much for this link!
Wow that was quite a rollercoaster!
Thanks for this wild ride!
Lol, this sounds like a grandma complaining that Facebook is deleting her posts
I may or may not have done some cracking since the early 90s.
Back then three things were true for me to start that hobby:
This was mostly me trying to keep playing games after giving the disk (or disks) back.
However, once I might have cracked GTA (the original), the rush of finally understanding how a debugger worked and figuring it out, made actually playing less apealing than the whole figuring it out.
It made me rent games then just try figuring out how to crack them, but that was financially killing me as again I had nothing to begin with and I was now at minus some.
Granted that none of the early protections were anything similar to Denuvo.
In most cases, it was just a case of blocking a cd check here and there. Some had hilarious protections where the game would screw the player if detected: RA2 would be probably the most famous I remember. Often than not it made me paranoid if I had triped a trap and the game was being unfair or bugged.
Somehow I kept going until I shifted towards the Hackintosh scene.
Then when the first humble bundle appeared and people pirated it, it disgusted me to no avail and finally left this part of my life.
I remember how at a lan party I stumbled onto a problem with Worms 2 game. After being patched it asked for cd to be present in the drive all the time. And the only nocd I found required to place game data from the cd in the root of a C:/ drive. It made me curious and some days later I tried to investigate the case and yeah, game did some checks and assembled path to game files using drive letter. In the nocd they just cut out loop that went over the drives. Which afaik misbehaved on machines with floppy drive. And I went further and patched game to use ./ instead of drive letter. Which was tricky as there was not enough space to just patch it in place and I had to search for free space and do long jumps.
I definitely messed up details here and there, but those were fun times nonetheless :)
Some had hilarious protections where the game would screw the player if detected
I will never forget that one day one of my high school friends called me after I'd hooked him up with a pirated version of Crysis and yelled into the phone: "WHY IS MY GUN FIRING CHICKENS?! I CAN'T KILL ANYTHING!"
As someone who uses GrapheneOS, and likes Louis Rossman, this is very concerning. Could you link me to some info on this?
Louis' video: https://youtu.be/4To-F6W1NT0
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I presume video on this site is supposed to actually play rather then just be static images.. is there some secret to making it work or does it not support firefox?
Holy shit, that is so unhinged. Multiple accounts of, what seem to me like, paranoid delusions from the GrapheneOS dev. As a user this is concerning, and I will keep an eye on it going forwadd.
Hey don't let this scare you away from GrapheneOS as Louis states he doesn't know how this works and cannot trust the code.
You cannot be specifically targeted as a user of GrapheneOS with backdoors from the project. The entire user base would need to be targeted and this project has to many eyes on it to not be noticed by now.
Probably just Rossman being paranoid, I assume.
There are video links posted if you'd like to stop assuming.
How right to repair is good for the consumer, complete lie. Daddy Tim Cook is keeping me safe with my glued in phone battery, anti-replacement display chip, Apple repair program required NDA, etc. He also bullies manufacturers into cutting off all direct-to-consumer sales of components, so that no nasty unsafe display ends up in my device. Thanks Tim, and fuck Louis! (obvious /s)
A theory, but probably Empress wants to defame 1337x for "bundling cryptominers with torrents" so she can distract the community to not noticing that she will actually be the one to do such thing
Any evidence to this or just speculation? Empress is absolutely batshit fucking insane for sure, but so far we've got no reason to believe she's planning bundle cryptominers with cracked denuvo games as far as I can tell.
I think fitgirl released a bunch of stuff awhile ago pertaining to potential malware in her cracks and her blackmailing anyone who speaks out against her.
With CPY and Codex gone the PC cracking scene is dead and gone as far as AAA games are concerned. Denuvo is too difficult and time consuming to crack. The scene lost.
Yep, and I don't feel all that bad. AAA games have been getting shafted for ages.
Now we can support and enjoy even more indie games, big companies can suck it while losing more money, and inevitably something will come along against Denuvo down the line.
And maybe Empress can recoup. Seems like she's not in a great place atm.
As crazy as that makes Empress sound, I'm definitely willing to look past this kinda stuff because it's best not to bite the hand that might feed you.
Also, we definitely need more crackers (especially of the d€nuvo kind) to step up and train the next generation of crackers instead of just ranting online about their torrents being removed from popular sites.
Excusing crazy people doing crazy things cause they give you free stuff is the shittiest take I've seen on lemmy
Are you really comparing "everyone" to empress?
I'm just saying getting stuff from Empress is no worse than getting it from a corporation. She's going to be equally crazy whether you download her cracks or not, at least she's not exploiting child labor or destroying the environment in the process.
I personally believe that, since piracy is already illegal in the developed world, and since I live in a politically divided first world country, that we don't need to bring politics and stuff into this.
Besides, we don't have many better options when it comes to d€nuvo than to accept the people who crack games with modern variations of it. I especially don't since I'm not smart enough to crack it and also since I go for pre-cracked games for the convenience of not having to apply the cracks myself.
Ha, classic Empress
Darranged, racist and borderline-transphobic Denuvo cracker who goes off on unhinged rants pretty often. Generally what she says doesn't hold much weight.
Check the FreeMediaHeckYeah wiki, but as far as I know 1337x is still generally safe.
Not borderline transphobic, absolutely transphobic. Not an ounce of good will in her. She absolutely sees herself as superior to anyone and everyone and will hate anyone who is different.
It's the only person who can crack Denovo-protected games
She's also a delusional wannabe cult leader and may actually be insane.
Okay well now I'm interested. I've been looking for a fun new cult to join.
I know a better one that has excellent coffee and also open bar karaoke every week. It's sorta like Lions Club, except we're the Liars Club. We mostly recruit from law schools and political campaigns, of course.
this sums her up pretty well surprisingly
The one where you have to pay 1000€ (or $) to enter, so she could share some life truths? 😅
Every other group got legal action taken against them so they stopped cracking denuvo, Empress doesn't care since she's in Russia. Denuvo's legal team is more competent than their developers unfortunately.
I disagree. But, if true, we have been trolled to an elite level.
Is it really elite trolling if it's literally just saying things that are generally offensive? Lmao
There are different versions. I don't know of a guide cor the newer ones.
Fwiw I think that video still has valuable information to introduce you to cracking at all. As it does explain a little of what is happening, and why it works.
Try looking up denuvo v4 work around. IIRC it basically removes some early assembly neutering denuvo's ability to exit or interfere with the execution of the game.
The unlisted video!
what an existence.
Say sike right now
I got my first virus in years this week from a 'verified' uploader on 1337x
Empress alt account
She is a wizard in cracking drm protected games. But a little crazy
Very informative
I thought this was about Elite Dangerous for a moment and was very confused....
lol @ windows users and their precious viruses. so cute.
Literally
ok, there, Zero Cool, lol
I've still never had one in like 30 years lol. My husband got that weird dolphin one forever ago and that's it. That one was just kinda funny tbh. It's not that hard to avoid them even if you're donning your pirate cap. Not that uh... Not that I know that from experience or anything.
lol, enjoy those downvotes
Empress is a video game cracker, the only active cracker who releases games protected by Denuvo. That's an extremly popular digital rights management system for stop game cracks used by Triple A game publishers. She is also completely nuts and regularly has very odd rants. It appears she's accusing 1337x owners of inserting malware into releases. 1337x is a popular site for accessing torrents of cracked games and one Empress regularly released on.
Any idea on if her accusations are actually true?
I am fully lost most the time on here but I am learning a lot
Apparently that's NOT an acceptable thing to say while performing brain surgery for the first time! Oh well, my patient kinda almost survived 🤷
Incidentally, that's the Empress origin story.
Sounds about right 😁
Pretty sad that this bitch is getting paid to crack things. I don't know what's stopping a band of people to just hack her shit up and take what's been helping to crack denuvo so it isn't bottlenecked by unchecked individuals such as she.
OMG, its like being at the point in your RPG game where you are tasked to retrieve the DRM-free game, but you know the price from the crazed troll is going to be your rogue's head and all your gear, else more violence.
Am I the only one who somewhat likes how weird she is? I don't pay her too much mind though
Crazy bitch
she´s still at it i see
thanks for using Leebra!
go to feed...
I saw this tweet a while ago that was like "Piracy lore is crazy, there's only like 2 people who know how to crack Denuvo. One of them is a psychotic transphobe who speaks like a JRPG villain, and the other only cracks football games"
I'm paraphrasing, but honestly it's so accurate...
Edit: For anyone confused, here is a great writeup on the history of Denuvo cracking, and Empresses lunacy
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