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"EA Games funded initial Denuvo anti-tamper technology"

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Monday, June 6, 2016 | 19:49 GMT
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"EA Games funded initial Denuvo anti-tamper technology"

Monday, June 6, 2016 | 19:49 GMT
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EA Games may have funded the initial development of Denuvo, the anti-tamper technology used in the latest blockbuster games to prevent players from utilizing illegitimate copies to play the games.

The anti-tamper technology has been used in all the latest blockbuster games, including Just Cause 3, the recent reboot of DOOM, Hitman and even Mirror's Edge Catalyst. Gamers that acquire copies of these games through unofficial or illegitimate channels such as BitTorrent or filesharing websites will find themselves unable to launch the games at all.

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It is often the case that in order to play games obtained through unofficial or illegitimate channels a crack, or modified executable, is required. Even today Denuvo, for the most part, remains uncracked as so-called scene release groups find themselves unable to break the systems anti-tamper code.

Now a user on the website Reddit claims he has retrieved new information on the anti-tamper system through an e-mail conversation with one of the software's developers. In the e-mail exchange the developer notes that the company has "developed [our] Anti-Tamper solution mainly on request from EA, our first backer for this technology which was released September 2014".

That EA Games has requested the development of the anti-tamper technology is not surprising. Ever since the release of the first version back in 2014 the game developer has utilized it in every game released since, much to the annoyance of players who wish to play the developer's game without shelling out the cash.

If history is any indicator it won't be long until tech-savvy programmers find a way to break the code, effectively rendering the anti-tamper solution useless.

Just last week one programmer that goes by the handle MKDev announced that he may be close to breaking the anti-tamper code for the game DOOM. Whether he actually succeeds at cracking the techonology remains to be seen.

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