Pirates sucessfully cracked it in 1-2 weeks after release. If I recall Rockstar Games paid $100,000 to put a near impossible security on their PC version of GTA:IV.
Pirates will crack it in under a week, and that's taking it slow. Publishers consider piracy a given, they know they'll never stop it, but the longer they can stall, the more they win, said: " said: " DRM is POINTLESS. To the point where, yes 100,000 would be worth it for 2 weeks of pure sales. 1-2 weeks of zero piracy is heaven for any game publisher. " Well actually DRM has a point for the publisher, the longer they can inconvenience and stall pirates, the more sales they get. Until they manage to make DRM seamless it's pointless to include it in their products. Often, like others have said before me in this thread, it actually forces them into piracy just for simplicities sake. It's that it also happens to be extremely intrusive and frustrating for legit customers. If anything it was like making a $100,000 prize competition for them. The only problem with DRM isn't that it's inevitably going to get cracked. Although that's longer than it takes for most games they still managed to put Rockstars $100,000 to waste. Why are they putting DRM on top of DRM? It isn't going to do a goddamned thing other than make your legitimate costmers frustrated and likely want to pirate your future said: " DRM is POINTLESS. ESPECIALLY if the Steam version has DRM - seriously, what the fuck is the point of that? Steam IS DRM. When I find out a game I was planning to buy has a shitty form of DRM like SecuRom, I simply pirate it so I don't have to deal with that shit. Ned, at least for said: " DRM is POINTLESS. but hardcore Borderlands players eager for more content may want to reconsider purchasing the Zombie Island of Dr. Why did they add it for the DLC? So yeah, if you are against this sort of thing, or you just plain don't want your rights restricted by shitty DRM implementations, don't buy this DLC (until they remove it!) I was moderately looking forward to this DLC, but it's not a huge deal if I don't get it, so I can live with it. It uses regular Steam DRM like almost every other game out there. Also, the main game doesn't have this DRM. _.), so I really don't want to have to deal with shit like this just because I want to play the game.
I've gone through three computers in the past four years or so, and my current one is due for a full upgrade from the ground-up (it keeps bluescreening due to a motherboard issue. I like my Steam DRM the way it is, and I don't want anything more restrictive than that. I was literally about to click the purchase button, and then I happened to notice this nonsense ( click here for full size): Yeah, screw that shit.