kittykabal

not reliable, even if it should be. i’ve seen updates replace the file in a way that clears the read-only flag. same with other clever tricks like making it a symlink.

putting aside the ethics of DRM in general (ew) and that this developer has already made a fortune on a mod virtually unequaled… my biggest problem with this kind of thing is that bugs happen. “mines” implies that the goal will be to do something malicious to pirates. so what happens when there’s a bug in the detection code, or in the auth server, or when you didn’t test it on some specific quirky hardware-software combo, or when a cosmic ray strikes the RAM stick and flips the wrong bit?

a paying customer gets fucked – or a lot of them do. all for the petty greed of someone who can’t envision the obvious fact that the actual pirates will just fuzz your bomb logic and patch it out within two days.