Flagrum Posted June 11, 2018 Posted June 11, 2018 I know, nobody expects this to happen, nor does anyone want it to happen ... but still it could happen some day: what if EDSA goes out of business? What will happen to all our purchases? Or more generally speaking: one can imagine so many different situations where EDs authentification servers are not available - be it for some days, a more prologned time or maybe even for good. Desaster can strike, no matter of one's intents. Natural desasters like the datacenter burns down, gets flooded, etc., political tensions in different parts of the world, or financial desaster - global or local. We as customers then are left with 3 days until our purchases are rendered useless (except you had enabled offline mode in wise foresight). When StarForce was still the way to go, there was at least a second party, independent from ED that could have provided some sort of remedy (i.e. renewing one activation per month, remember?). My proposal now: ED could provide a key or program that disables the DRM stuff. Like a patch program that can modify the relevant DCS files to remove the DRM checks. This patch program would be installed as part of the regular DCS installation so that it is physically available right away for everyone. But it would be encrypted so that it can only be used if one knows the key. That key would be kept secret by ED - but with the promise to publish it "if desaster strikes". Even if this is still no perfect solution from the customer perspective - we just had to trust that the publishing of the key would really work - it is still better than to hope that a "final friday dcs patch" would be available. But if that DRM removal program is out "in the wild", wouldn't it be hacked? Yea..no. Strong encryption is a thing. And the encryption key could be changed regulary, like with every regular DCS update. I know that there are tons of other, more pressing issues for ED atm. But I thought, why not write down the idea, maybe it helps someone one day.
WolfK33 Posted June 11, 2018 Posted June 11, 2018 This "if disaster strikes" possibility is exactly what I´m worrying about with the new DRM, what I tried to voice in that "new copy protection" thread. Offline mode doesn´t really help, even if you turn it on after every play session, as it would mean you´re stuck with the install on that PC forever and can´t install it on another machine when your computer breaks down and so on. The new DRM method is why I haven´t bought the Hornet, as much as I´d like it, voting with my wallet although they probably couldn´t care less about one less sold module. I like your idea, but I´m not knowledgable enough to know if it would work. One problem would indeed be that we would be dependant on ED to give out that key to us "when desaster strikes". The question is, depending on what kind of disaster would strike, will ED be willing or able to give out the secret key ? There has to be a possibility to make them safe from piracy and make us safe from "disaster day". What we have now is not it.
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