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Tag Archive | "DRM"
Atari Hates Gamers – Riddick Locked to 3 Install Limit
Looks like some buzz going around the net that the DRM used on Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena for the PC (by Atari) is hard-locked to 3 install counts and then the game will not install again. (Thread 1, Thread 2) Early indications suggest that there isn’t even an support number to call to [...]
Continue reading...Blu-ray is DOA: High Costs, Expensive Players and HD DLC
Monday, November 3, 2008
ZDNet’s Robin Harris takes a look at why Blu-ray is dead-on-arrival. Robin’s analysis, while starting with an inflammatory title, makes a lot of sense. Robing starts off by citing the first few key elements that killed the format: 2-year battle with HD-DVD took the steam out of HD Disks in general, making consumers a bit hesitant about [...]
Continue reading...Blu-ray BD+ Copy Protection System Cracked – Publicly
Saturday, November 1, 2008
Slashdot reports that the BD+ copy protection scheme used in Blu-ray media has officially been cracked by the Doom9 community. Slysoft had previously cracked the BD+ copy protection scheme and ship functionality in their existing product line supporting Blu-ray disk operations (copy, burn, etc.) Turns out one of the developers from the Slysoft group provided a [...]
Continue reading...Open Source DRM Solution, Marlin, Ready for Distribution
Thursday, October 23, 2008
Marlin Developer Community claims to have ready the first Open Source DRM solution that is ready for rollout. The co-chairman of the Marlin Developer Community claims the open-source system is far less oppressive than those from rivals such as Apple and Microsoft, allowing users to share content between any Marlin-enabled device in the home rather than [...]
Continue reading...Amazon MP3 Download Service Review
Friday, September 5, 2008
After growing increasingly unimpressed with the Apple iTunes/iPod “lock-in” model I started hunting around for alternative low-cost music services online. Fortunately one of the first and favorite services I ran into is the relatively new Amazon MP3 Downloads service. Some of the big highlights of the Amazon MP3 service for me were: Non-DRM’ed music Low-cost music (about $0.99 [...]
Continue reading...Re-Conditioned Classic Games for Windows XP/Vista
Friday, July 11, 2008
How cool is this, the European publisher CD Projekt (guys behind The Witcher) has approached the owners of some of the best classic PC titles of the past and bought the rights to them in order to port them completely to Windows XP/Vista platform (even re-doing the installers) and then turn around and sell them [...]
Continue reading...FCC Wants Your Feedback on MPAA DVR Lock-Down
Friday, June 13, 2008
In an effort to make sure that consumers don’t enjoy their content too much, the MPAA is trying to push the adoption of Selectable Output Control (SOC), which would allow the MPAA to remotely decide when a movie could or couldn’t be recorded by our DVR. The point of contention came when the FCC stepped [...]
Continue reading...Anti-Piracy Chip to Stop PC Piracy
Saturday, May 24, 2008
Atari’s Nolan Bushnell give’s a blurb: Speaking at yesterday’s Wedbush Morgan Securities annual Management Access Conference, the Atari founder suggested that game piracy will soon be a thing of the past thanks to a new chip. “There is a stealth encryption chip called a TPM that is going on the motherboards of most of the computers that [...]
Continue reading...Crazy DRM From Mass Effect PC Removed
Monday, May 12, 2008
Nice… there was so much community crying over the super-call-home DRM that was going to go into Spore and Mass Effect PC, that EA redacted it and has gone back to classic SecuROM with a 1-time activation. W00t for online whining!
Continue reading...Mass Effect PC Will Have Insane Copy Protection
Wednesday, May 7, 2008
Apparently Mass Effect, PC Edition will use a ridiculous new version of the SecuROM copy projection that will phone home back to the EA authentication servers every 5-10 days you launch the game. Not just on initial launch, or even the default SecuROM behavior of checking the disk security (that causes so many launch failures [...]
Continue reading...Xbox 360 DRM Can’t Handle RRoD
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
Update #1: Laurence Hartje, having gone through this process, set the record straight down in the comments. Things aren’t as bad as originally thought. Microsoft’s Xbox DRM will lock you out of your own content if you get your red-ringed Xbox replaced. I bolded that sentence, to give you something to chew on. If you got your Xbox [...]
Continue reading...DRM’ed Music is Dead – Long Live Amazon!
Monday, January 14, 2008
Todd Swarthout sent in news about the kickass announcement that Amazon’s MP3 service now offers DRM-free music from all 4 of the major music labels as of January 10th! Sony BMG Warner EMI Universal Music This is in a followup to the news we reported on Amazon recently securing contracts with Sony BMG and Sony BMG, before that, decided DRM [...]
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