A bit of a wacky story turned up on the Internets today.
To help users deal with a DRM-related technical problem (surrprise surprise) found in the Driect2Drive version of Rainbow Six Vegas 2, it seems that, unbelievably, the Ubisoft support team posted a NO-CD crack made by the evil piracy group Reloaded, in order to deal with the problem. It seems like a pretty sloppy fix indeed: they merely renamed the crack r6vegas2_fix.zip and released it as there own work-around, giving no credit to the shafted Reloaded group. But a curious forum-goer named Twingo delved into the assembly code of the .exe file with a hex editor and found Reloaded tags, proving suspicions that the fix offered by Ubisoft was one and the same as the one released by the mega-illegal sea-dog 'warez' group.
Any mention of the issue on the official forums are getting immediate lock-downs by moderators.
One forum community manager had this to say on the forums: "The file was removed from the site over a week ago now and the matter is being thoroughly investigated by senior tech support managers here at Ubisoft. Needless to say we do not support or condone copy protection circumvention methods like this and this particular incident is in direct conflict with Ubisoft's policies."
It is indeed a sad state that PC gaming finds itself in when even a company's interneral support staff use a cracked .EXE for their own game, to get around problematic and annonying DRM. It seems like often the only people that DRM prevents from playing the game are the ones who actually bought it.
