3DM

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| commercial = Yes

| type = Game Localization, Cracked Games

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| owner = Beijing Sandingmeng Software Service Co., Ltd.

| author = Su, Feifei
Liu, Yan

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| location = Fengtai District, Beijing, China

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3DM was a Chinese video game piracy group – a group of individuals specialized in cracking the digital rights management (DRM) applied to commercial PC video games. It was "one of the world's biggest" such groups in and around 2016, according to Kotaku.{{cite news|last1=Plunkett|first1=Luke|title=One Of The World's Biggest PC Piracy Groups Is Quitting The Game|url=http://kotaku.com/one-of-the-worlds-biggest-pc-piracy-groups-is-quitting-1757670457|access-date=17 February 2016|work=Kotaku|date=2 February 2016}}

Their founder and leader is reported to be a woman using the pseudonym "Bird Sister" ({{Lang-zh|p=bù sǐ niǎo|l=phoenix|s=不死鸟}}). Unusual for piracy groups, 3DM's members have public profiles on the social network Sina Weibo, and use a blog to inform the public about their activities.{{cite news|last1=Klepek|first1=Patrick|title=The Anti-Piracy Tech That's Giving Hackers Fits|url=http://kotaku.com/the-anti-piracy-tech-thats-tearing-video-game-hackers-a-1759518600|access-date=17 February 2016|work=Kotaku|date=17 February 2016}}

History

3DM made gaming media headlines in January 2016 when Bird Sister wrote that she anticipated that in two years no more cracked games would be available, attributing this shift to new DRM technology by Denuvo, then being adopted by many games publishers.{{cite news|last1=Purchese|first1=Robert|title=Finally, tide turns in war with PC game crackers|url=http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2016-01-08-denuvo-game-crack-success|access-date=17 February 2016|work=Eurogamer|date=8 January 2016}} The group also announced that it would quit cracking games for a year, and later claimed it had defeated Denuvo's technology.{{cite news|title=Hang on…..3DM Now Suggest They've Cracked Denuvo|url=https://torrentfreak.com/hang-on-3dm-now-suggest-theyve-cracked-denuvo-160211/|access-date=17 February 2016|work=TorrentFreak|date=11 February 2016}}

In 2017, Japanese game developer Koei Tecmo won a lawsuit against 3DM in a Chinese court. 3DM was sentenced to $245,000 U.S. dollars in damages, and to cease distribution of pirated versions of Koei Tecmo's games.{{cite news|last1=Ashcraft|first1=Brian|title=Tecmo Koei Defeats Major Chinese Piracy Group|url=https://kotaku.com/tecmo-koei-defeats-major-chinese-piracy-group-1820464639|access-date=15 November 2017|work=Kotaku|date=15 November 2017}}{{Cite web|title=Koei wins China lawsuit over pirated 'Three Kingdoms' games|url=https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Companies/Koei-wins-China-lawsuit-over-pirated-Three-Kingdoms-games|access-date=2021-03-08|website=Nikkei Asia|language=en-GB}}

References

External links

{{Official website|https://3dmgame.com/}} {{in lang|zh-hans}} 3DM

Category:Warez groups

Category:Clubs and societies in China