Top-notch video game pirates at the Chinese hacking forum 3DM are so concerned that anti-copy protection during the next few years will be so good that they will lose their jobs. The forum for pirated PC games has reportedly had an arduous time during the past year cracking some high-profile releases for illegal download.

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TorrentFreak reports it started with Dragon Age: Inquisition, which took the pirates one month to crack open. That is a long time.

3DM pirates then had a difficult time trying to crack FIFA 16 and Just Cause 3. In fact, both video games are still uncracked, according to Kotaku.

The three games use the type of security called Denuvo that works across Steam and Origin. It uses an "anti-tamper" method rather than Digital Rights Management (DRM), although the details of its operations are top secret. TorrentFreak explains that Denuvo is in fact a secondary encryption system that is added to a game's DRM, according to GameSpot.     

DRM has created a big debate in the gaming world. For example, Assassin's Creed developer Ubisoft has claimed DRM cannot stop PC game piracy, and The Witcher publisher CD Projekt Red does not add DRM to any of its desktop/laptop games.  

Several other games also use Denuvo. They include Metal Gear Solid V, Arkham Knight, and Mad Max. The new title Rise of the Tomb Raider will also use the security system.

3DM's team was excited when it cracked Inquisition. However, Denuvo then upgraded its security, which made two of last year's biggest PC releases uncracked until now.  

3DM's founder Bird Sister made a blog post reporting that many PC game fans had asked about a cracked version of Just Case 3. The video game pirate explained that the cracker Jun is still working on the last stage.  

However, the forum's founder noted that encryption technology is becoming much more challenging to crack. The person also believes that after two years no free PC games will exist.   

It is unknown if the security of future games using Denuvo can be compromised quickly. If that does not happen it will likely be used on many new video games.