EMPRESS is a renowned video game cracker known for their exceptional skills in bypassing digital rights management (DRM) protections. With a reputation for c...

EMPRESS is a renowned video game cracker known for their exceptional skills in bypassing digital rights management (DRM) protections. With a reputation for cracking the toughest security measures, EMPRESS has become a prominent figure in the gaming community, enabling players to access and play pirated versions of popular titles. Their contributions have sparked debates around piracy, copyright infringement, and the effectiveness of DRM in the gaming industry.

Empress NFO Emporium

  • Slowy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12712·
    11 months ago

    Too bad she’s also a TERF apparently (read the hogwarts legacy NFO, dang lol)

    • readme@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
      585·
      11 months ago

      There is a rumor going on that she is actually a he. Many also think he has some sort of bipolar issues. But some of the craziest people can be very talented at some things. This is the case with this person. It’s actually extrememly rare that the person can be that crazy and this talented at same time. This is why it’s so fascinating.

      • Slowy@lemmy.worldEnglish
        173·
        11 months ago

        Interesting. Do you know if they would be masquerading as a woman to push their weird agenda, or just to troll? It is definitely interesting when people are crazy and talented like that, though in this case the talent is more interesting for sure… their grandstanding and transphobic takes aren’t really an original or unique brand of crazy, pretty basic. I would probably have to dig deeper to see the depths of the weirdness but my brain only has so much tolerance for consuming that kind of bs.

        • Cinner@lemmy.worldBEnglish
          411·
          11 months ago

          Good chance it’s for OPSEC reasons and is a small, highly skilled team, not a single woman.

          • bionicjoey@lemmy.caEnglish
            211·
            11 months ago

            If it was a team, they wouldn’t allow the craziest person among them to be their mouthpiece

          • PieMePlenty@lemmy.worldEnglish
            11·
            11 months ago

            Yup. My bet as well. People love to place achievements and advancements in technology on one person while in reality there’s always a team behind it. The reality is things have gotten so complex, its damn near impossible for one person to make a breakthrough themselves without building on the work of someone else or fragmenting the work and have it be done by multiple people.

        • readme@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
          92·
          11 months ago

          If I had to guess, I would say a troll on sadistic power trip with a mix of bipolar or maybe schizophrenia.

      • SchizoDenji@lemm.eeEnglish
        11·
        11 months ago

        That rumour was debunked when Voksi said he wasn’t involved in the scene anymore and CPY acted like absolute clowns.

        • readme@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
          252·
          11 months ago

          I don’t beliave that Voksi is EMPRESS. One thing I know is that EMPRESS was one of the crackers in CODEX scene group and this is why CODEX group was dissolved because EMPRESS was so crazy :-) EMPRESS was a huge security risk for the scene and there are some rumors that EMPRESS caused some scene busts. But don’t read too much into this comment ;-)

    • OneOrTheOtherDontAskMe@lemmy.worldEnglish
      38·
      11 months ago

      Yeah it’s not even just that, she’s unhinged as hell. Each new controversy has a longer and weirder NFO or backstory or 16 pages of screenshots from her discord from fanboys that want her feet pics.

      I love piracy, I love a good radical, I don’t love the weird vitriolic hate and self worship she spews out.

    • odium@programming.devEnglish
      23·
      11 months ago

      Why is that reddit post a better investigative journalist piece than over 90% of actual news sites?

      • Elevator7009@kbin.run
        21·
        11 months ago

        Being charitable, no deadline + they chose to write this for fun so it’s a passion project as opposed to an “ugh another thing I have to do for work I guess” project.

      • odium@programming.devEnglish
        6·
        11 months ago

        But they couldn’t hold her off forever. The revolution had arrived, and it had found its Robbespierre. When the coveted Red Dead Redemption 2 release came out, she was on top of the world.

        But we all know what happened to Robbespierre.

  • CaptainBasculin@lemmy.mlEnglish
    161·
    11 months ago

    Fun fact: EMPRESS introduced her fans here after being banned on Reddit; but later got banned here too.

    • floofloof@lemmy.caEnglish
      2·
      11 months ago

      Each time the narrator says this nonsensical “mustings” the writing on the screen says “musings”, which actually makes sense.