By Dean Pullen
18 July 2008, 5:41 PM

BIZZARELY, UBISOFT seems to have been caught distributing a 'no-CD' crack produced by a pirate group for one of its own games. A user named Twingo on the site Fileforums.com pointed users in the direction of a crack made available by Ubisoft for the PC game Rainbow Six Vegas 2.

This was meant to help users around problems experienced by the copy protection problems caused by the Direct2drive download service. The file has since been removed, but not before many users confirmed that the download was in fact a no-CD crack distributed by pirate group 'Reloaded'. The 'UK Community Manager' of Ubisoft attempted to address the issue by stating: "We're looking into this further as this was not the UK Support team that posted this, however if it is an executable that does not need the disc I doubt it has come from an external source."

Yet various users posted proof it was from an external source, using a standard hex viewer. Threads on the Ubisoft forums are now being closed on the matter, and the same community manager posted the following statement: "The file was removed from the site over a week ago now and the matter is being thoroughly investigated by senior tech support managers here at Ubisoft.

Needless to say we do not support or condone copy protection circumvention methods like this and this particular incident is in direct conflict with Ubisoft's policies." Some users have now resorted to calling the company 'Noobiesoft'.