Buying used CPUs can expose users to existing bans from anti-cheat engines(www.tomshardware.com)
4 pointsby speckx8 hours ago1 comment
  • notnullorvoid8 hours ago
    > Anti-cheat systems have become controversial recently

    Not recently, they have a long history of being controversial.

    Ideally we'd have consumer protection laws that prevent companies from doing things like using HWIDs to ban accounts.

    • BLKNSLVR7 hours ago
      Agree that the controversy isn't recent. I haven't been a 'gamer' going on nearly 20 years now, and pumkbuster was controversial for a good few years before I left gaming for the grand journey of parenthood.

      And I don't think Sony's rootkit was gaming related, but it was somewhat adjacent. And that was about as controversial as it gets.