Turning deeper inward, she says, she soon entered “the ‘ZONE,’ which allows me to SEE MORE into everything.” The chains broke. As she focused, she began to see “what every number meant ‘universally,’’’ she says. It was anti-piracy software, she realized. Chains made up of numbers wrapped around the video game Dark Souls 2. If you ask Empress what got her started breaking DRM, she says it was a dream she had one night in 2014.
