Let this be a lesson to all of you hackers (aspiring or otherwise): if you're going to hack stuff...DON'T IDENTIFY YOURSELF OR MAKE IT EASY TO TRACK YOU DOWN!
For some reason most of the Playstation 3 hackers forget this.
Because the SAME THING HAPPENED TO EA!!! They started diss-ing PC gamers and started implementing mega DRM/online activations on everything even remotely PC related, and lost even more money! Then the CEO started talking all sweet to PC gamers and there was magically no more online activations being required for PC games made by EA.
"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.
According to the guys who make Tages, any system that allows you to revoke employs rootkit tactics:
"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.
Sony granted access to GeoHot's PayPal records
Mar 17th 2011 3:22PM (Joystiq)For some reason most of the Playstation 3 hackers forget this.
Ubisoft reports $76.2 million operating loss in fiscal year 2009-10
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.