"AI will solve Denuvo and PS8 emulation"
"AI will solve Denuvo and PS8 emulation"
Denuvo won't be an issue forever. AI will be able to handle it easily within a decade. Hell, AI will be able to write emulators for the PS8 by the time the PS8 comes out.
Confidently incorrect redditor. I'm sure LLMs will be able to vibes code away a closed source system with next to zero documentation by design, that uses low-level machine code, several layers of encryption, and the world's foremost obfuscation made by the people who used to crack them. Not to mention that people like Empress have a vested financial interest in NOT disclosing their evasion methods.
Pirates really annoy me with their "we'll always find a way, we'll always come back stronger" ignorant stance to any set-back. They see states passing laws requiring all ISPs and cloudflare and VPNs to block piracy sites on demand within 10 minutes notice and think there is some Hollywood group of plucky 90s anarcho hackers just rubbing their hands with glee at taking on such a challenge. Total idealist mindset. Literally the same tech-bro mindset that says do nothing about climate change because AI or some other magic technology will solve it for us so we can just rest on our ass because the arc of good things is long but bends towards us always winning so we don't need to change our habits or be worried.
Denuvo has likely won. You'd need a genuine AI super-intelligence to un-denuvo things and if they ever come up with one the bourgeoisie and empire are going to slap human review on that thing IF they even sell the masses access at all so fast your head will spin because it's a weapon for them, a weapon to be used against workers not one for the workers to use. And anyways it would probably be a $5000/month fee minimum 6 month subscription to it because it would no longer be a hype thing needing juicing and propaganda but a reality they could replace workers with and use to hack and dominate the enemies of the west. Heck $5000 is change compared to the value such a thing would bring in replacing a couple workers of the skill needed to crack this thing so probably $10-25k a month minimum. We'd have larger problems if that happened like eating and paying rent so it wouldn't be a good thing.
Unless Russia for some reason decides economic warfare of cracking western games is somehow a national priority and siccs their national hacking team on it or some other top tier state actor in that field like Iran, DPRK, China. None of which have any reason to make western games and their attendant propaganda for the west any easier to access by people within and without the west. That's about the only other option I could see of sufficient strength to seriously challenge denuvo.
The reality is the open web is slowly being murdered and in the open by these laws and changes and soon the only place to pirate content at all will likely be over heavily attacked hidden networks like l2p that have a high bar to clear to find this stuff and private trackers. Rarbg still hasn't been replaced, its alleged possible replacement the torrentgalaxy kept suffering downtime and is now completely dead. The scene for torrenting is weaker than it has been in many years with only leetx, semi-private rutracker, and a few rehosters of the former's content (little more than mirrors trying to get ad bucks) still around of any worth. Streaming sites are regularly hammered by take-downs and shit quality anyways. Game hosting sites that aren't malware infested regularly get the hammer.
Empress if they crack denuvo at all going forward will probably do one every 4-5 years just to keep their cult going and only if necessary. They've effectively thrown in the towel.
Also important to note that the public will, eventually, lose access to ChatGPT and other LLM platforms as it exists now. Everyone is just beta testing it for these AI companies. When it actually works, consistently, they'll end all public facing services and it will be strictly B2B. That means the only access you have to generative AI will be through Microsoft, Apple, Google, Facebook, etc. Then they can just block usage violations. Therefore no "Hey chatgpt, write me a program to crack games".
You might have some independent access to LLMs you can run locally, but they will be outdated and not as well trained. The big guys will also use AI to keep those options out of search results and make sure they're removed during security scans of your computer. B2B is simply a way more profitable model for software than selling you a $20 subscription for a chat bot.
I don't think this is entirely accurate. Facebook open sourced llama specifically to counteract this, as slop generation is complementary to their primary good, which is ads. Unlike Google and MS, their only b2b sales channel is ads.
That wedge + China will keep the slop generators open for a while.
what exactly would the business be using the chat bots to do with one another?
I hate to say it, but pirates (read, me) are often lazy as hell, and entitled. It's one thing to assume "Oh, someone else will do it." It's quite another to actually put in the work to circumvent Denuvo.