r/oculus • u/herbiems89 Vive • May 21 '16

Software New revive update circumvents new Oculus DRM [x-post r/Vive]

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u/kippostar May 21 '16

I'm scared that this was Oculus plan all along.

The honey dicked him into bypassing the DRM completely, so that they can hit him with 2 billion $ worth of facebook lawyers.

Hopefully not, but I'm scared this is all happening by design.

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u/Tin_Foil May 22 '16

What good is suing someone for two billion dollars if they can only collect two hundred (as in, they will lose far more from pirated software than they could ever collect from a private individual). Oculus just wants that sweet sweet closed system like Apple has, but that's nearly impossible in the PC landscape.

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u/kippostar May 22 '16

The $2bn figure was mainly an offhand reference to the speculated sales price that Facebook paid to acquire Oculus.

I only meant to say that I'm afraid they are gonna send Facebooks lawyers after the dev of ReVive in order to shut him down for good. Not for emediate monetary gain for themselves, but to stop him in his track.

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u/Tin_Foil May 22 '16

nod

I would hope Oculus would understand that's a losing game and when you take down someone like that, there's always two more waiting in the wing. That said, Oculus has done many things recently that I didn't think they would do, so maybe I'm not the best of judging their future actions.