Thought-provoking: In his Instagram bio, Skid Robot describes himself as ‘an anonymous artist amongst the streets of skidrow, giving to those in need. Creating a dialogue for a solution to extreme poverty through art’
Lee – who co-founded the healthy, low-calorie dessert chain – was arretsed after a witness called 911 and gave police the license plate number of the Range Rover involved – which was rented in Lee’s name.
The co-founder of Pinkberry Frozen Yogurt accused of beating up a homeless beggar with a tire iron because he didn’t like his sexually-explicit tattoo is believed to have forced the man to get on his knees and apologise before he attacked him.
Although Lee’s attorney alleges that his client was threatened by the man – who he thought had a weapon – LAPD believe it was the Korean-born entrepreneur who approached him after seeing what he deemed a disrespectful tattoo.
The Los Angeles-based artist, who goes by Skid Robot, posts photos on Instagram of all the imaginary homes he creates for homeless people on Skid Row – from four-poster beds and pillows to windows with a view of the moon.
‘I offered him a meal but he declined, instead he asked for paper, pencils, pens so that he can write and draw… I had a sketchbook that was fairly new and a few pens and markers I was able to give him on the spot along with a lil money so he can eat later’.
“Thank you Ubisoft, this was quiete [sic] a challenge for us, but nothing stops the leading force from doing what we do. Next time focus on the game and not on the DRM. It was probably horrible for all legit users. We just make their lifes [sic] easier.”
Prior to Skid Row’s release, there has been a hack that emulated the back and forth of Ubisoft’s DRM servers to the game. However, it did not work for all users or localizations of the game. In the readme file, Skid Row claimed its new solution “cannot be compared to that.”
Giving homes to the homeless: A Los Angeles street artist named Skid Robot is using his creative talents to bring joy to the homeless by spray painting beds, windows and furniture onto the walls they sleep against
‘Ben was released from the hospital with no shoes. He was unable to walk as a result of being shot in the back and eventually the hospital booted him on the street like so many others,’ writes the artist.
Another person featured in Skid Robot’s series is a man named Ben. In his photo, he hunches over in a wheelchair. The wall behind him has been painted to make the chair look like a royal throne atop a castle.
The DRM, which now ships with every new PC game made by Ubisoft, requires that gamers have a constant connection to the Internet in order to play their games. The security feature caused a large backlash by users for its inclusion in Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed 2 title, which was released last month.
In his Instagram bio, Skid Robot describes himself as ‘an anonymous artist amongst the streets of skidrow crack, giving to those in need. Creating a dialogue for a solution to extreme poverty through art.’
Attached to the “readme” file that comes with the hacked content (which can be found here), Skid Row alerted other hackers that the group’s methods were safeguarded against reverse-engineering in order to fend off competing hacking groups and Ubisoft itself.
Ubisoft’s always-on digital rights management solution, dubbed the “Online Services Network,” has apparently been circumvented by hackers. News of its arrival on peer-to-peer file-sharing networks began circulating in places like social-news site Reddit Wednesday morning.
The hack itself removes the DRM entirely and is being claimed by a consortium known as Skid Row. It requires users to download and install a modified version of the game’s executable file to their computers. These modified game files, alongside a crack that can be applied to a retail version of the game, were uploaded to various file-sharing sites late Tuesday evening.