Better performance for pirates: Crack removes stutters from Capcom PC game
arstechnica.com
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The only reason I don't pirate games now is because I choose not to, not because finding cracked games is now harder.
About the only place DRM seems to actually work is closed server multiplayer games, other than that, since the days of stupid puzzles hidden in the manual, to CD keys, to the crap that exists now, I doubt DRM really makes much of a difference to anyone other than paying customers and multiplayer people.
I've never found one single player commercial game at all I wanted to try that didn't have a viable crack.
Actually, using linux, sometimes, you have to use the cracks after actually purchasing the games just to get them to run. I bought Kotor 2 from GoG recently, had to download a cracked version of the steam aspyr patch just to make it run without crashing on resolution changes after the cutscenes.