DRM? What it about?
Hello, I Do not want to cause any Drama on this thread, I Just want to know the story behind A user by the name of Phoenix. Apparently he implemented a backdoor into players servers who used addons that required the DRM. This came to my attention when I saw this message along with a large paragraph explaining why DRM was good / bad. This is a segment of the message I saw, "Anyway, I mostly blame Phoenix for people's hate on DRM. A well-implemented and well-used system can work really well for everyone. But, unfortunately leaker paranoia and the greed of one asshole lead to very shitty implementations of DRM, and look where we are now >_>"
Can someone explain to me about this "Phoenix" and what the story behind it is?
Short Story:
Phoenix (a jerk) created like the first solid, commercial DRM for Scriptfodder (previous name of GmodStore) scripts. It kinda did the job, you could crack it but leaking scripts was way more difficult. So on the other day Phoenix just decided to randomly shut down his service (ScriptEnforcer) without any prewarnings. This resulted in tons of scripts no longer working on servers, devs losing their scripts (because they did not have a backup on their harddrive) and the reputation of DRM services dying.
Not to mention the other counteless scummy things Phoenix did, like lend money from people and not pay them back, ban people from scriptenforcer (meaning they can't use any se protected scripts) just because he didn't like them. There's a handful of things he did.
ByMomoxat 25th of April 2018 20:08:30devs losing their scripts (because they did not have a backup on their harddrive)
That's really dumb
Edited Scriptenforcer turned into nazism at the end, using a leak would get your server banned, you had to pay $5 to get it unbanned lol.
However, it helped to detect a lot of alts on gmodstore since we had access to the IPs hash and we were much more reactive than the gmodstore moderation team.
Edited Few months ago i found back the DB i exported, that's like nothing compared to all the reports i did only because of scriptenforcer

Pretty sure he bumped the unban price up to $10 in the end.
In short Phoenix was a jew