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> DRM and obfuscation only work to waste a week or two of the time of the person taking it apart.

I remember reading an article featured here that the latest PC video game needed something like 6 months to be cracked and the crackers (Chinese I think) almost abandoned.

Will try to find the link.

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Found it for you (or at least I think you meant 3DM (cracking group) and Denuvo (anti-tamper)):

https://torrentfreak.com/no-more-pirate-games-in-two-years-g...

Additionally some fun facts for games released with the latest Denuvo iterations:

Rise of the Tomb Raider released 28th of January this year, not cracked to date.

Just Cause 3 released December 1st 2015, not cracked to date.

Thats a lot longer than a week or two :)

This is true, but it's primarily due to the fact that highly skilled reversers aren't really producing cracks anymore.

What are they doing instead?

Writing obfuscators.

If the skilled reversers stopped producing cracks, isn't that the same thing? :P

Sure, but it's still noteworthy that this isn't due to DRM suddenly becoming better.

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