1. That’s not piracy
2. I would never use generative AI for any reason

I currently have Torbox and Debridio as a scraper while using Nuvio on all my devices and that setup works pretty well. Debridio is a yearly sub and pretty cheap. Torbox has a tier structure for their subs but essential is good enough for most people.

Warning however, all of the things I just mentioned are vibecoded so getting support is quite egregious. AI bros tend to get pretty insecure when you bring up the idea of Claude having made a mistake, even innocently.

And aside from getting support, the discord servers of these services are some of the worst discord has to offer. Everyone worth asking anything in the Torbox server, for instance, are incredibly immature. Not to mention the flagrant bigotry.

Just understand the kinds of people you’re gonna be talking to. A lot of them have some pretty serious god complexes, and I’m not bringing this up out of nowhere I’ve been a customer in this scene for years. But most importantly, abandon the idea of loyalty here. Sticking with one service will likely only hurt you, as enshittification consumes quickly in this scene. Good luck.

Ik it’s for clicks and solely in the headline but I must be a stickler about such things; Cracking may be hacking-adjacent but those two things are different. Hacking is infiltrating, cracking is manipulating, quite different if you ask me.

Considering Denuvo maintains a policy of non-refunds if their security is beaten, the seeming consistent defeat of its DRM threatens to make the entire product useless to video game publishers and developers, opening releases new and old to fresh vectors for piracy that they had paid to prevent.

This part is fucking hilarious though, especially considering I’ve heard Denuvo is quite expensive and they only keep increasing their licensing fees.

Although I’d be remiss not to mention the fact that Denuvo’s actual purpose is indeed to stall piracy, they know they can’t prevent it. Stop pirates from cracking their DRM for the most profitable few months of the game being out and I’d say most publishers are happy (even though that doesn’t make any sense outside of the deluded mind of a shareholder). In this, in most cases, they are successful. Irdeto did recently update Denuvo once again, but I say their days are numbered.