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I certainly wouldn't lose any sleep over them being unhappy with me. #seb #MPAA #Piracy #DRM Embedded Link MPAA attacks Ars for "challenging efforts to curb content theft" The Motion Picture Association of America doesn't like us. According to the MPAA blog on Tuesday, "Arts Technica" is a "tech blog with . . . → Read More: I'd wear the MPAA's disapproval as a badge of honor It looks like the folks at Infinity Ward may have started a trend among developers of first person shooters on the PC. Word now comes from a Q&A about Bioshock 2‘s multiplayer mode over at The Cult of Rapture that it will not have dedicated server support, LAN play, or the ability to kick troublemakers . . . → Read More: “Bioshock 2″ following in “Modern Warfare 2′s” footsteps for multiplayer. It’s a bit old news by now, but perhaps some of you haven’t heard about it. About a week ago the folks at Amazon had a problem with a couple of George Orwell’s novels they were selling in e-book form. News reports vary with some saying the publisher changed it’s mind about letting them be . . . → Read More: Amazon gives me another reason not to buy a Kindle. (#Blogathon) In a blog post on the official The Sims 3 website executive producer Rod Humble has announced that the next outing of the franchise will be reverting to less intrusive forms of copy protection: Hello everyone I wanted to share news with you regarding our copy protection plans for The Sims 3. We’ll have . . . → Read More: EA goes back to serial number copy protection for “The Sims 3.” Kudos to Ubisoft for listening to customers and taking a chance. They’ve announced that the retail release of the PC version of Prince of Persia will have no DRM at all: “A lot of people complain that DRM is what forces people to pirate games but as PoP PC has no DRM we’ll see how . . . → Read More: Retail PC version of next “Prince of Persia” totally DRM free. Remember when EA Games Label President Frank Gibeau said the following about why using SecuROM on Spore was a necessary evil: We assumed that consumers understand piracy is a huge problem – and that if games that take 1-4 years to develop are effectively stolen the day they launch, developers and publishers will simply stop . . . → Read More: “Spore” most heavily pirated game of 2008 despite draconian DRM. It took a bit longer than I expected, but the Chinese are ripping Blu-ray movies, cracking the DRM, and burning them to disc so they can sell them for next to nothing. The quality drops, but is still technically High Def and the movie industry is not happy: Law enforcement in Shenzhen, China, raided a . . . → Read More: Blu-ray DRM is officially dead. Chinese pirates selling Blu-ray movies for $7 each. The folks over at Gamasutra.com landed an interview with Electronic Arts CEO John Riccitiello wherein he claims to hate DRM but says it’s necessary due to piracy. He goes on to address the massive online protest over Spore using SecuROM: “So far, Spore has outsold Sims 2,” he notes. “Commercially, it’s doing very well.” “Everyone . . . → Read More: EA boss on DRM protesters: Half are pirates and the other half are stupid. Well it looks like I won’t be buying Far Cry 2 either seeing as they’re going to use SecuROM: Some DRM points that will hopefully answer some of your questions and will clarify some misunderstandings about our DRM and SecuROM: You have 5 activations on 3 separate PCs. Uninstalling the game “refunds” an activation. This . . . → Read More: “Far Cry 2” to use SecuROM DRM. Walmart… (via BoingBoing). From: Walmart Music Team Date: Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 7:42 PM Subject: Important Information About Your Walmart.com Digital Music Purchases To: xxxxxx@gmail.com Important Information About Your Digital Music Purchases We hope you are enjoying the increased music quality/bitrate and the improved usability of Walmart’s MP3 music downloads. We began offering MP3s . . . → Read More: another DRM server bites the dust |
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