Okay, here we go.
These are the rules concerning this as by Neal himself
"Just to be on the safe side, here's a reminder that Subsim does not allow discussion of stealing games (or borrowing, sampling, however one wishes to rationalize it).
This also means don't discuss cracks, on legal games or not, because there's no way to determine who is using a crack on a legal game or a pirated game. And please, for the love of god, don't jump up and announce to the world you are angry about the DRM and you plan to pirated SH5. This equals ban here.
This is spelled out in the user agreement to everyone when they join the forum
and the rules are clear.
No one cares what you do in your home, or how you measure yourself ethically, but no, you cannot discuss it here."
Now, don't bother clicking on the underlined statement because it leads to an error message.
Now, looking at what Neal has said, I want you to point to me where it says discussion of the EFFECTS OF a crack is prohibited. The Cnet article was about the EFFECT not the crack itself.
As I have said, this is equal to a news agency covering the effects of a break in. Not going into full detail or giving how to instructions of the break in.
Ubisoft's DRM is a very controversial matter as seen by how people have behaved on this normally civil forum.
It is not helped by people ripping into each other, or calling one another names.