The gawd-almighty merged DRM in Silent Hunter V thread

[partyboy]

Originally Posted by snapli

Uhm, there was a minor but decisive glitch in my argumentation: I said downloaded, but why does this have to happen? Some small files just stay at their servers and being read at runtime. How do you guess their content?

Cheers,

Snake

@partyboy: Yeah, I know that - therefore this post

In that case they use programs to "sniff" the interactions between client/server; watch what is being sent and requested, and either capture it outright or emulate it. Of course, this is a great simplification but that is essentially what happens. Stored remotely or not, necessary files, or functions, will at some point end up in the client computer's memory - and the crackers have direct access to that.

It could turn out to be very easy to crack after all. Or, it might go uncracked for months. Have to wait and see. But sooner or later the processes will be fully understood and broken. Pretty much a fact of life.