Denuvo Is Going To Be Sued. Uses VMProtect Without A License For Their Product

[Batu69]

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There is interesting version why appeared Denuvo v.4 without VMProtect. Here is a translation of post in russian part of internet. Source of the post in russian: http://rsdn.org/forum/shareware/6733058

 

"I want to tell you a story about one very clever and greedy Austrian company called Denuvo Software Solutions GmbH.

This company in due time has let out the system called Denuvo and the most remarkable in this history that in this system absolutely illegally uses our VMProtect. About 3 years ago in the electronic correspondence we already discussed the options for using VMProtect technology in their system, to which they received a fairly clear answer, that such an option is simply impossible, because cost of developing something similar for a "competing" company will be more than a hundred kilodollars and provide them with a $500 serial product for this purpose simply impractical.

 

But this didn't stopped the Austrian developers and after officially bought VMprotect they started mowing loot. Everything went well until we corrected the claim that due to the unlicensed use of VMprotect, their license was canceled and options were offered for solving the problem through signing an amicable agreement, with compensation for us forfeit in a modest amount by their measure. Our proposal was ignored.

 

So: 1. We have given out signatures to antiviruses we cooperate with. Respect to Sophos: "For some reason my wife’s copy of Sophos keeps detecting a VMProtBad flag on one of the game’s dll files. Is there a lapsed license for protection with EA/BioWare that needs to be sorted out or did the system flag it on accident?"

1. At the moment, we have asked the VALVE support to contact the legal department in order to explain to them the "danger" of cooperation with these scammers.

2. Through our long-standing partners from Intellect-C, we are starting to prepare an official claim to Denuvo Software Solutions GmbH with the prospect of going to court, which can be a very good lesson for "greedy" developers who do not care about the intellectual rights of their colleagues in the shop.

In general, proceeding to flogging the next bad people."

It must be noted, that this guys already sued (source: http://rsdn.org/forum/shareware/5704575 ) and won the case (source: http://rsdn.org/forum/shareware/5794497.1 ) against allsoft.ru for selling Acronis vmProtect.

 

P.S. On russian exelab forum ELF_7719116 (guy who cracked Securom) wrote:

"In a word, if CPY (3DM, BALDMAN ...) until some time will not unravel the ball (Unravel) ... em! At least in theory, I have the whole puzzle fit together. It only hinders the catastrophic lack of time to finish at least one of the most important modules for the Denuvo Profiler, which will RAM vmprot at once (there are too many VM contexts for manual patching: vmp2 - 40 / vmp3 - 15). I already wrote about this."

 

Source: https://exelab.ru/f/index.php?action=vthread&forum=13&topic=19719&page=37#14

So, we might have in near future third cracker for Denuvo.

 

Article source: DENUVO IS GOING TO BE SUED?

 

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VMProtect developer to reportedly sue Denuvo anti-piracy software over licensing issue

 

 

The developer behind the popular software protection software VMProtect may be sueing Denuvo Software Solutions GmbH, the Austrian company behind the anti-piracy software Denuvo.

According to a recent post on the Russian forum rsdn, the anti-piracy software used in many of the latest PC games is internally using VMProtect for which the Austrian company has not acquired the appropriate licenses.

 

VMProtect has been on the market as generic software protection software since 2003 and aims to prevent users from analysing or reverse engineering the software it protects.

That Denuvo uses VMProtect is no secret, because the signature of VMProtect has showed up in many, if not all, Denuvo protected games since its introduction in late 2014.

With the release of the most recent version of Denuvo, widely known as Denuvo v4, the Austrian company has reportedly moved away from VMProtect, though the company did not officially respond to requests for comments.

A VMProtect representative now states that the company is working on filing a lawsuit against the Austrian company because it failed to acquire the appropriate licenses for its use of the software.

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Everything went well until we corrected the claim that due to the unlicensed use of VMprotect, their license was canceled and options were offered for solving the problem through signing an amicable agreement, with compensation to us forfeit in a modest amount by their measure. Our proposal was ignored.

- drVano at VMProtect

 

If the lawsuit is indeed filed and Denuvo is deemed to be violating copyright and licensing agreements, it could mean that games using the anti-piracy software may no longer be distributed at all.

VMProtect further states that it is currently working with Valve, the company behind the Steam Store, and several anti-virus software distributers to stop further distribution of Denuvo. Whether this campaign will be successful remains to be seen.

The usage of VMProtect in Denuvo is one of the key ingredients that created for a rather robust anti-piracy mechanism that very few game crackers have been able to beat.

The latest version of Denuvo, which is reportedly no longer using VMProtect, was used in the recently released indie title RiME. The indie game was cracked in just five days after its release on May 26th 2017.

 

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https://superlativetech.wordpress.com/2016/02/01/denuvo-what-is-it-really/ 

[Agent 86]

Denuvo will go down as biggest piece of shit propaganda ever surrounding the gaming industry. Purely worthless and now in trouble. As with any protection system, time is its enemy, tick tick tick tick BOOM! Its over.