3DM

3DM is a Chinese video game warez group – a group of individuals specialized in cracking the digital rights management (DRM) applied to commercial PC video games. It is "one of the world's biggest" such groups, according to Kotaku.[1]

Their founder and leader is reported to be a woman using the pseudonym "Bird Sister" (simplified Chinese: 宿菲菲; pinyin: Sù Fēifēi). Unusual for piracy groups, 3DM's members have public profiles on the social network Sina Weibo, and use a blog to inform the public about their activities.[2]

3DM made gaming media headlines in January 2016 when Bird Sister wrote that she anticipated that in two years no more cracked games would be available, owing to new anti-tampering technology by Denuvo then beginning to be widely applied.[3] The group also announced that it would quit cracking games for a year,[1] and later claimed it had defeated Denuvo's technology.[4]

References

  1. 1 2 Plunkett, Luke (2 February 2016). "One Of The World's Biggest PC Piracy Groups Is Quitting The Game". Kotaku. Retrieved 17 February 2016.
  2. ↑ Klepek, Patrick (17 February 2016). "The Anti-Piracy Tech That's Giving Hackers Fits". Kotaku. Retrieved 17 February 2016.
  3. ↑ Purchese, Robert (8 January 2016). "Finally, tide turns in war with PC game crackers". Eurogamer. Retrieved 17 February 2016.
  4. ↑ "HANG ON…..3DM NOW SUGGEST THEY'VE CRACKED DENUVO". Torrent Freak. 11 February 2016. Retrieved 17 February 2016.

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