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The games developer Ubisoft recently released the latest PC patch for its
hit game Rainbow Six Vegas 2 but with the release came problems for all
users who had purchased the game via “Direct 2 Drive”. The patch works fine
for users with a physical copy of the game, but those who downloaded it
legally from D2D could not load up the game.

The Ubi forums were hit with thread after thread with gamers asking for a fix
for the issue and many threads noted correctly that an illegal No-CD crack
created by the scene group RELOADED would fix the problem. Ubisoft
moderators however, made sure to warn anyone who posted such suggestions
that No-CD cracks/fixed .exe are unofficial and illegal and would not be
tolerated in the forums.

Later in the day, Ubisoft released its own patch to solve the problem and it
it. However, some users ran the patch through a Hex editor and found that
Ubisoft's "official" patch was in fact the RELOADED No-CD crack, just
renamed.

Now,this would not be so big of an issue if not for Ubisoft's own terms of
use. Their licenses state specifically that cracks are illegal in the United
States and that users using them will violate their license. That is also
not to mention that forum users had been punished just a day before.

There has been no official statement yet from Ubisoft, but a community
manager has locked threads on the official Ubi forums and added this
statement.

“We're looking into this further as this was not the UK Support team that
posted this, however if it is an executable that does not need the disc I
doubt it has come from an external source. There'd be very little point
doing so when we already own the original unprotected executable.

As soon as we find out more about this we'll let you know.”

Since the Hex editor screenshot surfaced, Ubisoft has taken the patch down
and users with a D2D version of the game still cannot play.

ok so... what this says is that they punished some users for using the "crack" that is Illgale... but than turned around and used the same thing and just renamed it?

am i getting that right?

ok now can someone tell me what a "crack" is?

Yes, you essentially got it right.

A crack is a file or group of files that you can either drop into a program's folder directory or even replace an existing file (or group of files in said program) with that does things like prevent the need for registering the program (alleviating the need to purchase a license) or prevent the need to possess the actual physical disk that the commercial release of the program would require. Whatever it does in actuality, the net result is that 'cracked' software doesn't require any financial expenditure on your part to get to work.

You'll note that the vast majority of software here on DC is in fact 'cracked' to accomplish that very goal

ok... i think i might get that.... i noticed there was a forum called Cracks on DC so i guessed thats where they are... im sure im right on that one... so i wont ask...