Ubisoft Steals "No-CD Crack" to Fix Rainbox 6: Vegas 2
Found on TorrentFreak on Friday, 18 July 2008
"Piracy is BAD" proclaims every copyright dependent industry lobby group. "Downloading is stealing" is another popular one. How about "downloads are a lost sale"? Ubisoft clearly didn't believe that last one, as they distributed a no-cd patch from the scene group RELOADED as a fix for one of their games.
After lots of complaining and attempts to fix things themselves, one Ubisoft employee found a solution. A zip file was uploaded to the help/support site, named "R6Vegas2_fix.zip".
However, someone ran a hex edit and it appears the fix was not Ubisoft code but actually a "no-cd" crack released by the Scene group RELOADED, as shown here.
Redistributing the work of someone else, calling it their own without giving credits to fix a problem caused by DRM what only affects those who actually paid for the game. This is so weird and surreal that it has to be real; even if Ubi tried to sneak out by pulling the download.