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@Mogan: Yes!

@Abomination713: "[...] this has happened only a handful of times [...]" -- Um, this is still happening... have you been living under a rock? Search for Denuvo cracked/bypassed vs uncracked performance benchmark videos for recent Assassin's Creed games.

Even the most efficient implementation will simply minimize performance degradation, not eliminate it. At higher resolutions & highest graphics settings a few fps may not sound like much but considering all the expensive bleeding edge hardware people buy to churn out a few more frames a sec, that is some costly loss of frame rate.

Besides, there are other reasons to care about it. For example, one DRM (e.g. Steam) is already enough of a concern in that if Valve eventually shuts down their servers we're going to have to trust them to release DRM-free copies of each game so we don't end up empty handed, and adding a second DRM which requires regular communication with yet another external server is beyond consumer-unfriendly... it's just plain insulting.

And please don't give me that "Oh, but how likely is it that Valve will go out of business or shut down their servers and thus swallow up our library of games". It's all about control. We no longer have control over the software we've paid for so we shouldn't be giving them even MORE control over us.

There are more reasons, some of which controversial, but I think I've mentioned enough. So don't tell me I'm some guy who just saw a YouTube video and didn't do any research. It looks like you're the one who needs to do some more research or think about the consequences of such anti-consumer DRMs.

tl;dr: Yes, a number of games are still performance degraded by Denuvo. OTT DRMs are not just bad for performance but DRMs on top of DRMs hurts our consumer rights.