That would be possibly illegal, requires someone highly specialized to care about each and every one of your games, and assumes there won’t be a crackdown on the openness and anonymity of the Internet that currently allows the distribution of pirate software.
replyWe need to have this right codified into law before we lose it.
Not just possibly, the DMCA makes it a felony to remove or bypass any copy protection measure, even if it doesn't work very well.
replyNot every jurisdiction has the DMCA, so that’s why I said possibly. It’s definitely illegal in the US.
replyEvery jurisdiction was bullied into adopting this provision as part of every trade deal the US ever makes. Cory Doctorow wrote about it. Look for the keyword "anticircumvention".
replyCouldn’t find it. I know for a fact it isn’t illegal in my country.
replyIt's coming. https://www.iipa.org/files/uploads/2026/01/BRAZIL-2026-COPYE...
reply(Search "circumvention")
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replyRemoving DRM is all fun and games until single player titles start requiring constant internet access in the future.
replyDenuvo requires internet access. It's been cracked anyway.
replyDo you know about this tool called Ghidra? It makes most programs open source. Not the ones with DRM, though.
The next step they want to take is not have you use your own hardware at all and just stream it to you, so you don't even have a copy.
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