Rainbow Six Vegas 2
For all the unnecessary tasks users have to go through to play a protected game, at least they almost always get to play the game in the end. This was not the case for the digitally distributed version of Ubisoft?s Rainbow Six Vegas 2. Users who paid for and downloaded legitimate copies of the game were met with a request to insert a nonexistent game disc to actually use their purchase.
Buying unusable bits is pretty annoying, but the story gets better, because Ubisoft?s initial response was classic. The company actually provided (and then removed, for obvious reasons) a pirate-created, DRM-stripping crack as the official solution to the problem. Is it pirating if you pirate a pirate?s code?