Problem is the damage what this unstable person can do. She’s distributing binaries that are executed on windows PC with security measures disabled on purpose. If she went rogue and started inserting malware or cryotominers, tons of people would be affected.
Apologies, it was a link to a reply further down in this thread by [email protected] that is as follows:
Empress is pretty much the only person who cracks Denuvo DRM - the only other person who publicly releases cracks only does it for Football Manager games. However, Empress is just a little unhinged, as this post demonstrates.
Aye, the darkness of the days draws ever closer as the seas are left barren. ‘Nary a crew unfurls their sails to pilfer. Preferrin’ to pledge to a mad bilge rat rather than fly colors that be their own.
@gravitas_deficiency I’m using mastadon over lemmy. Sorry. It’s a new thing. This person in particular was basically shaking the community down for crypto donations and when they weren’t getting what they wanted they decided to stop doing it and now they’ve resorted to a demigod complex I guess?
Cool to learn a bit how Lemmy via Mastodon behaves. I accidentally subscribed to a Lemmy community via my Mastodon account, but I just ended up unsubscribing and resubscribing via my Lemmy account.
No worries! I was mostly just curious - I had seen that comment pattern recently once or twice, and that was the best explanation I was able to hypothesize, which I guess was accurate-ish.
Holy shit, I thought this was supposed to be a list of cult warning signs in increasing escalation and was like this makes no sense. I didn’t realize this was actually rules for their cult. WTF.
@gravitas_deficiency it’s a denuvo crackers private cult page filled with smooth-brained idiots who feed into their malignant narcissism. They were a member of CODEX, only person who cracks denuvo games properly at the moment. Led to their narcissist behavior. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.
@gravitas_deficiency the last 6 years has been the right wing community seething with anger and resentment. Were seeing a resurgence of strong-arm politics and a return of a cold war. Hard times are ahead my friend. This is a crazy time to be alive.
@gravitas_deficiency if you read the original post, there’s a bunch of stuff relating to anti-lgbt comments, which in light of the recent controversy over the anti rainbow flag protests in the USA and abroad, it is relevant. It’s coming into the piracy community now, and I guess the point of this post was to make a decision as a community to continue endorsing this person, or conscientiously stop associating with them. Sorry if I wasnt clear. I will never use EMPRESS releases personally
Isn’t there another person who knows how, but just restricts themselves to very specific games? I wonder if there’s any way to convince them to help replace the too-far-gone Empress. I understand they probably also don’t want to just make the cracking info public, as it would presumably just accelerate the cat-and-mouse game, but perhaps they could be convinced to help bring a new person up to speed? I wonder if they could be convinced by donations to mentor an Empress replacement?
From what I’ve read (take this with a grain of salt), the person you’re talking about cracks games with a much older version of denuvo. They’re apparently a lot easier to crack than those being done by this psycho.
I can’t stand her. Wish people would just stop posting about her since she seems incapable of staying quiet and well-behaved like the rest of the scene.
Empress is currently the only person who is cracking Denuvo DRM. She’s also insane. This is the rules from her Telegram channel.
All the other (better) crackers were either hired by tech and security companies, or threatened with legal action until they stopped cracking. This is a large part of why Denuvo is seen as uncrackable these days, when three years ago you had games cracked the day of release.
Ah okay, I remember seeing a meme about how only three people were able to and one is a Nazi, one is a furry, and one only cracks football games. Sounds even worse now lol.
The only person on this planet who cracks denuvo :_D
She is a misandric, homophobic, transphobic, extremely irascible, conflictive, psychotic, rude, narcissistic, paranoid, conspiratorial, liar and a long etcetera that probably includes schizophrenia and drugs. Oh, and she has a cult, she is multifaceted ¯_(ツ)_/¯
If you have no other competition in a specific service whatsoever, no matter how many people despise you, you’d still be the most popular by lack of competition.
If you use a definition that includes anything like “liked and admired” then she doesn’t fit. Her service is busy but as this thread shows, most people openly state they only go to her because they have no other choice for these cracks.
Using popular hides how many people actively want to jump ship if only there was competition. It’s like saying that Comcast is popular because they have so many customers who don’t have a viable alternative to using them.
I’m sorry for, pointing out how popular isn’t the best choice of word?
But no matter how you slice it, popular isn’t a great descriptor. Whether you choose the prescriptivist “the dictionary says x thus the word means x no matter what” or the descriptivist “most people use the word to mean y thus the word means y no matter what”, in this case they both agree.
Both groups agree that when I say “Jim is popular” it makes you think that people generally like Jim. It evokes some level of communal approval. The dictionary literally defines the word to mean likeable, and the general usage still seems to denote general approval.
So either way, it doesn’t represent the Empress situation. A situation where the majority of the community at best doesn’t care and at worst openly dislikes her as a person because of her behavior, but still comes back for the games. She has a monopoly, but that doesn’t make her inherently popular. Most people who know seem to dislike, and most who don’t will also have no bearing on her popularity.
Not can but is willing to. Denuvo’s legal team is going after anyone who reverse engineers any part of their DRM and they have gotten a lot of groups to back off. Empress is in Russia so she won’t face any consequences unless she pisses off any of the Russian oligarchs, which also means she probably will never crack Atomic Heart but then again she is crazy.
I’m really really surprised nobody else has hunkered down to learn how to crack Denuvo just to give this toxic shit the middle-finger. I mean, piracy groups are full of autistic weapons, and nobody has taken up the challenge?
Cracking Denuvo requires being there from the start, since with every new release new obstacles are added. If you try to crack denuvo now you’ll be completely lost, and getting copies of old Denuvo doesn’t seem this easy I guess. Empress had been there since Denuvo v1 so 🤷♂️
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I don’t care about his “rules” or his attention seeking addiction. All I care about are the games that he cracks.
Straight to business. I like it.
Problem is the damage what this unstable person can do. She’s distributing binaries that are executed on windows PC with security measures disabled on purpose. If she went rogue and started inserting malware or cryotominers, tons of people would be affected.
Bet they are gonna complain that there were no signs. No one could have predicted this.
Whether that would be worse than running Denuvo malware is up for debate lol
I demand the source and context
Empress, and shes crazy. Shes also the only one who can crack denuvo
it’s empress and she’s just off the rails
You didn’t answer my question
I think I did
This
Its asking me to login and I don’t have an account
Apologies, it was a link to a reply further down in this thread by [email protected] that is as follows:
Empress is pretty much the only person who cracks Denuvo DRM - the only other person who publicly releases cracks only does it for Football Manager games. However, Empress is just a little unhinged, as this post demonstrates.
There was an r/HobbyDrama reddit post that covers much of the history: https://www.reddit.com/r/HobbyDrama/comments/rowk83/digital_piracy_the_rise_of_empress_how_one_woman/
If you ignore the racism (0.01% of it), she sounds pretty based
Is the anti gay shit not just as bad?
Is that for real? Got some serious crazy going there.
Its ridiculous, dont know why people bother with that, just wait for the cracks…
True man I am wondering how little self dignity one must have to still stick around after this.
Aye, the darkness of the days draws ever closer as the seas are left barren. ‘Nary a crew unfurls their sails to pilfer. Preferrin’ to pledge to a mad bilge rat rather than fly colors that be their own.
Internet rape?
Ok, now I need examples of “internet condoms”
SFTP?
HTTPS?
SSH?
nah, use SOCKS
TOR I2P LOKINET
Lmao what the actual fuck is this?
@gravitas_deficiency an insane narcissists fantasy world that people keep feeding into. End of thread.
More specifically: how is this relevant to piracy…?
Edit: also why the @ mention when it’s clearly me you’re replying to? Or is this how cross-platform fediverse content (lemmy <-> mastodon) works?
@gravitas_deficiency I’m using mastadon over lemmy. Sorry. It’s a new thing. This person in particular was basically shaking the community down for crypto donations and when they weren’t getting what they wanted they decided to stop doing it and now they’ve resorted to a demigod complex I guess?
Cool to learn a bit how Lemmy via Mastodon behaves. I accidentally subscribed to a Lemmy community via my Mastodon account, but I just ended up unsubscribing and resubscribing via my Lemmy account.
No worries! I was mostly just curious - I had seen that comment pattern recently once or twice, and that was the best explanation I was able to hypothesize, which I guess was accurate-ish.
The rest of the dynamic seems… Eesh.
yes mastodon clients automatically inject those username references (‘@’)
Empress is the only person that cracked denuvo games, and recently they’ve decided to stop cracking them and become a cult leader.
Holy shit, I thought this was supposed to be a list of cult warning signs in increasing escalation and was like this makes no sense. I didn’t realize this was actually rules for their cult. WTF.
I see. Of all the choices they could have made… that’s one of them, I guess…
@gravitas_deficiency it’s a denuvo crackers private cult page filled with smooth-brained idiots who feed into their malignant narcissism. They were a member of CODEX, only person who cracks denuvo games properly at the moment. Led to their narcissist behavior. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.
I wouldn’t really call that “absolute power”, but it is definitely super weird, and somewhat comical to come across out of the blue.
@gravitas_deficiency the last 6 years has been the right wing community seething with anger and resentment. Were seeing a resurgence of strong-arm politics and a return of a cold war. Hard times are ahead my friend. This is a crazy time to be alive.
I mean, in the broad sense of “what’s going on in the world”, I don’t disagree, but how’s that relevant to this piracy community drama…?
@gravitas_deficiency if you read the original post, there’s a bunch of stuff relating to anti-lgbt comments, which in light of the recent controversy over the anti rainbow flag protests in the USA and abroad, it is relevant. It’s coming into the piracy community now, and I guess the point of this post was to make a decision as a community to continue endorsing this person, or conscientiously stop associating with them. Sorry if I wasnt clear. I will never use EMPRESS releases personally
I downvoted, and got banned. Worth it. Wish I was banned for "mistakenly calling her Empress, or “yo big girl” or something to troll her.
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I mean it’s not even known if Empress is a single person or multiple, and if it’s a single person, we still don’t know if it’s a man or a woman.
No sexism allowed here.
Sorry boss thought we had freedom here, I’ll be careful next time around. Deleted that post and the rest of mine here. 🫡
I will continue to lurk and leech from here on out.
I thought this was amurica!
I believed Germany, whatever the VPN lands on right? Let’s take a spin, shall we?
Who tf is this?
@backhdlp @B3_CHAD 0xEMPRESS on reddit, used to be a member of CODEX
An absolute psychopath who also happens to be the only person willing to crack Denuvo.
@B3_CHAD @backhdlp most denuvo secured games suck, that’s why
Doom 2016 didn’t suck.
But they did remove Denuvo, and I didn’t buy it until they did.
Isn’t there another person who knows how, but just restricts themselves to very specific games? I wonder if there’s any way to convince them to help replace the too-far-gone Empress. I understand they probably also don’t want to just make the cracking info public, as it would presumably just accelerate the cat-and-mouse game, but perhaps they could be convinced to help bring a new person up to speed? I wonder if they could be convinced by donations to mentor an Empress replacement?
From what I’ve read (take this with a grain of salt), the person you’re talking about cracks games with a much older version of denuvo. They’re apparently a lot easier to crack than those being done by this psycho.
Ah interesting. That is unfortunate.
So what’s her actual name? Didn’t know she shared it
FSB agent Ivan Ivanovich. But her friends call her Iva.
I can’t stand her. Wish people would just stop posting about her since she seems incapable of staying quiet and well-behaved like the rest of the scene.
Hi from all, umm, what the fuck am I looking at??? 😂
Empress is currently the only person who is cracking Denuvo DRM. She’s also insane. This is the rules from her Telegram channel.
All the other (better) crackers were either hired by tech and security companies, or threatened with legal action until they stopped cracking. This is a large part of why Denuvo is seen as uncrackable these days, when three years ago you had games cracked the day of release.
Ah okay, I remember seeing a meme about how only three people were able to and one is a Nazi, one is a furry, and one only cracks football games. Sounds even worse now lol.
Internet feces, excrement
So then what are you supposed to do on this Telegram channel?
maybe some fetish rp channel? i dunno
Well you’re supposed to feed her ego by just being there and doing exactly as she says of course!
Who the fuck is this toxic person?
The only person on this planet who cracks denuvo :_D
She is a misandric, homophobic, transphobic, extremely irascible, conflictive, psychotic, rude, narcissistic, paranoid, conspiratorial, liar and a long etcetera that probably includes schizophrenia and drugs. Oh, and she has a cult, she is multifaceted ¯_(ツ)_/¯
You seem to have dropped this arm: \
Thanks glad you picked it up I almost tripped over it at the bottom of the page
and imagines herself as a rapist, and is proud of it (per her posted content)
You misspelled “she’s a garbage human”
She’s the one
My m8y in pilfering, not even I reckon I could patch the holes in that bilge sucking wench
One of the most popular sources for game piracy unfortunately
Popular feels like the wrong word. If you’re the only game in town for a specific service, that doesn’t inherently mean you’re popular.
If you have no other competition in a specific service whatsoever, no matter how many people despise you, you’d still be the most popular by lack of competition.
Depends on how exactly you define popular.
If you use a definition that includes anything like “liked and admired” then she doesn’t fit. Her service is busy but as this thread shows, most people openly state they only go to her because they have no other choice for these cracks.
Using popular hides how many people actively want to jump ship if only there was competition. It’s like saying that Comcast is popular because they have so many customers who don’t have a viable alternative to using them.
Holy fuck go back to Reddit
I’m sorry for, pointing out how popular isn’t the best choice of word?
But no matter how you slice it, popular isn’t a great descriptor. Whether you choose the prescriptivist “the dictionary says x thus the word means x no matter what” or the descriptivist “most people use the word to mean y thus the word means y no matter what”, in this case they both agree.
Both groups agree that when I say “Jim is popular” it makes you think that people generally like Jim. It evokes some level of communal approval. The dictionary literally defines the word to mean likeable, and the general usage still seems to denote general approval.
So either way, it doesn’t represent the Empress situation. A situation where the majority of the community at best doesn’t care and at worst openly dislikes her as a person because of her behavior, but still comes back for the games. She has a monopoly, but that doesn’t make her inherently popular. Most people who know seem to dislike, and most who don’t will also have no bearing on her popularity.
He’s not saying she has a popular personality she’s saying her cracks are popular because they are, you pedant
The only person that can crack denuvo right now.
Clearly fucked in the head but there’s no other option.
Not can but is willing to. Denuvo’s legal team is going after anyone who reverse engineers any part of their DRM and they have gotten a lot of groups to back off. Empress is in Russia so she won’t face any consequences unless she pisses off any of the Russian oligarchs, which also means she probably will never crack Atomic Heart but then again she is crazy.
I’m really really surprised nobody else has hunkered down to learn how to crack Denuvo just to give this toxic shit the middle-finger. I mean, piracy groups are full of autistic weapons, and nobody has taken up the challenge?
I think it’s more likely that there are others who don’t publicly share their cracks because they doesn’t want legal trouble/attention.
I don’t buy this. It’s easy to upload files anonymously.
Yeah but why take that risk? They don’t really gain anything.
They can’t gain recognition, uploading anonymously. But if someone purely wants the crack for the game to exist they could do it
Once again, why would they share their cracks if its for personal use?
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Cracking Denuvo requires being there from the start, since with every new release new obstacles are added. If you try to crack denuvo now you’ll be completely lost, and getting copies of old Denuvo doesn’t seem this easy I guess. Empress had been there since Denuvo v1 so 🤷♂️
Obviously she only rapes and violates men