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Mar 17th 2011 3:22PM (Joystiq)For some reason most of the Playstation 3 hackers forget this.
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May 18th 2010 4:41PM (Joystiq)PC Alpha Protocol's Uniloc DRM explained
May 3rd 2010 5:28PM (Joystiq)"The basis of the revokation is to hide some information on the end-user PC in order for him to be unable to copy it. Whilst revoking, this information is modified (i.e. deleted) then the activation count is decreased. This behavior is unethical and is clearly against our company policy: every Copy Protection’s companies who has implemented it had to use rootkit’ technics and this is not acceptable from our point of view, for end-users, publishers, and courts."
-http://www.tagesprotection.com/main.htm
Maybe you're fine with companies implanting rootkits on your computer, but I am not.
PC Alpha Protocol's Uniloc DRM explained
May 3rd 2010 4:28PM (Joystiq)"The basis of the revokation is to hide some information on the end-user PC in order for him to be unable to copy it. Whilst revoking, this information is modified (i.e. deleted) then the activation count is decreased. This behavior is unethical and is clearly against our company policy: every Copy Protection’s companies who has implemented it had to use rootkit’ technics and this is not acceptable from our point of view, for end-users, publishers, and courts."
-http://www.tagesprotection.com/main.htm
So now you know why no game that uses Tages for activation has a revoke tool.