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[–] amanda@aggregatet.org 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 3 points 4 months ago

Copy protection software that is very hard to crack because it seems to be everywhere in the game binary so you have to meticulously go through the whole thing to weed it out.

It's been known to slow games down because it's called too often to check if your game copy is not pirated.