Red Dead Redemption 2 DRM still has not been cracked (316 days)

Re:Red Dead Redemption 2 DRM still has not been cracked (316... by Causality1 on Wednesday September 16, 2020 @08:27PM (#24499778)

It's the unreliability I can't tolerate. I don't pirate pc games because when I buy something on Steam it will always be available for me to download, even if a licensing problem means other people can't buy it.

With streaming, who knows? Maybe Netflix loses the rights and it disappears. Maybe their encode is garbage and it ruins the dark scenes. So, I still pay for streaming services but anything I actually care about I download and archive.

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Re:Red Dead Redemption 2 DRM still has not been cracked (316... by kroltan on Wednesday September 16, 2020 @09:56PM (#24500354)

> Maybe Netflix loses the rights and it disappears.

That is interesting because it happened to me in the most annoying way possible:

I was watching Donnie Darko, a rather obscure movie that requires (or at least for me required) a bit of brainpower to watch. So I watched the first half of it and planned to watch the remainder the next day. Come the next day, and where is the movie? Nowhere to be found.

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Re:Red Dead Redemption 2 DRM still has not been cracked (316... by the_af on Wednesday September 16, 2020 @10:23PM (#24500504)

Hah. I had bookmarked Donnie Darko because, while I had already watched it (good movie, even better soundtrack!) I wanted to watch it again with my wife. I swear it was available the week before I finally decided to rewatch it, then of course it was gone when I wanted it.

(By the way, I know this doesn't actually happen, but I swear Netflix sticks in my bookmarks movies and shows I never bookmarked!)

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Re:Red Dead Redemption 2 DRM still has not been cracked (316... by cableshaft on Wednesday September 16, 2020 @10:22PM (#24500502)

That happened to me with Stargate SG-1. Was going through it on Netflix and suddenly it disappeared. Eventually resurfaced on Amazon Prime but the video quality is garbage on it for some reason.

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Re:Red Dead Redemption 2 DRM still has not been cracked (316... by Causality1 on Wednesday September 16, 2020 @11:08PM (#24500768)

Prime Video quality seems breathtakingly bad to me as well. Even their "high quality, 8GB per hour" setting looks remarkably worse than a 4GB h264 rip, to say nothing of HEVC.

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Re:Red Dead Redemption 2 DRM still has not been cracked (316... by cableshaft on Thursday September 17, 2020 @06:41AM (#24503001)

I actually didn't mean video quality on Amazon Prime in general. For example, we just got done watching Mr. Robot on Amazon Prime and I had no issues with the video, personally. But Stargate SG-1 was particularly bad, for some reason. Worse than SD, lots of artifacts.

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Re:Red Dead Redemption 2 DRM still has not been cracked (316... by donpott on Thursday September 17, 2020 @06:34AM (#24502958)

I was mid-way through watching the newly released (on Netflix) S2 of "Derry Girls" and they deleted it mere days after making it available. I was annoyed. Turns out they had messed up the rights.

https://www.radiotimes.com/news/on-demand/2020-07-14/derry-g...

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Re:Red Dead Redemption 2 DRM still has not been cracked (316... by progman32 on Thursday September 17, 2020 @12:41AM (#24501246)

> when I buy something on Steam it will always be available for me to download

At least, until Steam goes offline, or maybe your account gets lost. I for one still use Steam, but I do wonder if I'll be able to play my favorite games in 20 years.

A plain EXE from itch, GOG, or some other source will work as long as compatible hardware lives on.

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