New Ubisoft DRM "cracked" on day one?  Silent Hunter 5 succumbs
to PC pirates.  Rumours indicate that Ubisoft's brand new anti-
piracy DRM system has been compromised on the same day the first
game to use it went on sale.  Submarine simulator Silent Hunter
5: Battle of the Atlantic, and indeed the day one patch that
fixes many fundamental bugs, have both been hacked, with the
most up-to-date version of the game currently circulating
torrent sites and Usenet.  While the effectiveness of the crack
has yet to be confirmed, if the DRM has been circumvented, it
represents a massive failure on Ubisoft's part for its products
to be protected from unauthorised copying.  The DRM system
itself is based on the idea that the player's PC is always
connected to the internet. While you're online and authenticated
with Ubi's servers, the game operates proceeds as normal.
However, no connection means no gameplay: should you lose your
connection, you're unceremoniously booted from the game. What
happens when you reconnect may d