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A new version of Redsn0w for Mac OS X and Windows is now available from the iPhone Dev Team with a fix for DRM-protected books. Corona will also include the fix in an upcoming 1.0-6 release on Cydia.
Those who are already jailbroken under Redsn0w only need to re-run the jailbreak sequence using the newly updated too... |
31 January 2012
09:25 GMT |
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Digital Rights Management software packed in current PC games is nowadays employed by companies just to please shareholders and investors, not to actually try and combat piracy, at least according to Fredrik Wester, the CEO of Paradox Interactive.
DRM and other such anti-piracy problems have been criticized from all... |
24 January 2012
19:31 GMT |
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After the web was set ablaze due to the restrictive anti-piracy measures taken by Ubisoft with its recent Anno 2070 strategy game, the company has finally made changes to its digital rights management (DRM) software, in order to avoid imposing awkward limitations on owners of the title.In case you’re not aware ... |
20 January 2012
15:51 GMT |
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Video game publisher Ubisoft has said that the Digital Rights Management system that it uses will not hurt gamers because it has a solid customer support system that can deal with any problems linked to the game protection.In a statement issued to Rock, Paper, Shotgun Ubisoft says, “While it’s correct tha... |
20 January 2012
07:34 GMT |
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Like much of the rest of the world, we tried to resign ourselves to waiting, seeing and reporting what has been going on with the DRM policies of game makers, but things seem to be going more than a bit overboard. One would think that widespread discontent and even bouts of sheer outrage would be enough to make gam... |
14 January 2012
05:29 GMT |
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Ubisoft’s notoriously restrictive digital rights management (DRM) system strikes again, as Anno 2070 now requires owners to activate the game every time they make a change to their computer’s hardware configuration.
Anno 2070 was released late last year on the PC as a new installment in Ubisoft’s l... |
13 January 2012
10:12 GMT |
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After CD Projekt took action against those who have pirated their role playing game The Witcher 2 a number of critics said that the actions of the developer were excessive and that they should have done a better job at screening those who were targeted.In a statement to Eurogamer CD Projekt offered some explanation f... |
16 December 2011
04:41 GMT |
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While other companies decide to cripple their PC games with obnoxious DRM (Digital Rights Management) software to prevent piracy, developer Croteam and publisher Devolver Digital decided to add a special kind of anti-piracy method in their recent Serious Sam 3: BFE, in the form of an unbeatable giant red scorpio... |
9 December 2011
05:11 GMT |
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Neustar Media, the company that’s responsible for developing the technology behind the now controversial UltraViolet Digital Right Management (DRM) system, unveiled its plans to revive it, but not by considering it an entirely new system, but by distributing content from the cloud using existing solutions.
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8 December 2011
08:31 GMT |
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Good Old Games, the digital distribution service focused on selling classic titles without any sort of DRM and with extra features, believes other game publishers need to stop believing that DRM (Digital Rights Management) systems will stop people from pirating their games, and just try to pack in more value into the... |
1 December 2011
03:12 GMT |
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The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings might have been one of the most high profile launches exclusive to the PC this year but it seems that with popularity also comes great loss, because the developers estimate that more than 4.5 million people pirated the game.Marcin Iwinski, who is the Chief Executive Officer at CD Pro... |
30 November 2011
05:01 GMT |
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Great news for PC gamers that want to get the upcoming Assassin's Creed: Revelations title, as Ubisoft confirmed that the game won't feature its infamous digital rights management (DRM) system that forced players to always stay connected to the internet.Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed franchise is one ... |
11 November 2011
13:51 GMT |
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The leader of developer Obsidian says that publishers need to drop barriers linked to second hand sales and focus on creating gaming experiences that encourage players to return to the game over and over.Speaking during an interview with Gamespot Feargus Urquhart, who is the Chief Executive Officer at Obsidian, has s... |
7 November 2011
16:41 GMT |
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Video game developer and Steam creator Valve has again talked about piracy and how the only way to reduce its impact is to deliver an experience that the illegal copies of video games cannot match up to.This means that digital distribution can reach and turn a profit even in those countries that are traditionally ign... |
25 October 2011
15:01 GMT |
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Good Old Games might not be the biggest players in the digital distribution space but one of its executives says that it's main competition is not from Valve's Steam but from the piracy driven black market.Speaking to MCV Guillaume Rambourg, who is the managing director working at Good Old Games, has stated... |
24 October 2011
13:41 GMT |
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The upgrade process from an existing installation of Windows to the public pre-Beta of Windows 8 released at BUILD can alter the data associated with copyright protected content to the point in which it’s rendered unusable.
Microsoft has confirmed this problem, indicating that early adopters testing Windows... |
10 October 2011
13:31 GMT |
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Western developers seem to no longer be the only ones who are interested in creating ever more capable DRM solutions in order to protect their video games from piracy, with the creators of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 announcing that the game will require a constant connection to the Internet in order to be played.The developers... |
10 October 2011
08:20 GMT |
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Ubisoft's From Dust god simulator has finally seen the restrictive digital rights management system (DRM) which required a permanent online Internet connection to play the game, removed via a patch released on Valve's Steam service.From Dust was launched back in July for the Xbox 360, as part of the Xbox Li... |
12 September 2011
14:21 GMT |
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Two of the main developer studios working on titles for French publisher Ubisoft have offered very different visions on how Digital Rights Management solutions and piracy impact the PC gaming market.Martin Edmonson, who is the man who founded the Reflections studio and worked on Driver: San Francisco, told Eurogamer ... |
5 September 2011
15:01 GMT |
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Video game publisher Ubisoft has announced that it will be launching a patch, which is already being worked on, that will allow gamers to play the PC version of From Dust without being connected to the Internet, eliminating the controversial DRM measures that have been integrated into the game.
A post on the offic... |
23 August 2011
04:21 GMT |
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This week those who were excited about the new Legacy DLC for Dragon Age II and wanted to log into Steam in order to buy both the original game and the additional content must have been a little upset and surprised to see that the game was no longer there.As a result they needed to use another service to get both Dra... |
13 August 2011
06:31 GMT |
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When video game developer Blizzard announced that the upcoming Diablo III will need to be always connected to Battle.net via the Internet a lot of fans of the franchise and PC gamers in general were highly critical of the company, saying that the choice is nothing more than a ploy to introduce DRM measures via the ba... |
11 August 2011
16:21 GMT |
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Video game publisher Ubisoft has announced that the PC based version of the upcoming Driver: San Francisco car based game will be launched on September 27, while the versions of the game that are planned for the PlayStation 3 and the Xbox 360 will still arrive on September 2 in Europe and four days later in North Ame... |
11 August 2011
08:11 GMT |
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Ubisoft is turning what was supposed to be the great return of its Driver series into something extremely tedious, as the French company confirmed that the PC version of Driver: San Francisco will have its infamous digital rights management (DRM) program that requires players to have an always-on Internet connection ... |
28 July 2011
15:51 GMT |
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Microsoft has officially confirmed issues impacting customers running Windows 7 RTM and Windows 7 SP1, with copyright protected content failing to play on their computers.
According to the software giant, this occurs only on machines that are preconfigured with Windows 7. Media files that are either Windows Medi... |
9 June 2011
07:15 GMT |
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Capcom's executive VP, Chris Svensson, has just released a massive batch of details about the PC version of the upcoming Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition, including minimum and recommended hardware requirements, and information about the digital rights management software that will protect the game from p... |
27 May 2011
15:51 GMT |
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The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings is getting ready to be released all over the world next month, so its developer, CD Projekt, has just revealed the final details on its digital rights management protection system, which will authenticate every copy of the game.
The Witcher 2 is set to be one of the most important... |
19 April 2011
15:51 GMT |
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With the addition of Internet Information Services (IIS) Smooth Streaming to its mpx video management system, thePlatform allows customers to serve high definition content to customers over the web. Of course, thePlatform’s mpx video management system now offers the entire range of IIS Smooth Streaming benefit... |
9 April 2011
05:58 GMT |
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Amazon, the popular Internet destination for making purchases in various domains, is set to soon make available an Appstore with various Android software available for download, and the company has unveiled more info on the matter recently.According to the company, it plans on offering users the possibility to use a... |
7 March 2011
10:15 GMT |
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A phrase included in the End User License Agreement of the upcoming first-person shooter Bulletstorm suggested that the game would require the player to be always connected to the Internet while playing it, but developers have offered a rebuttal, saying that the language was a mistake.
Gamers found that the licens... |
1 February 2011
16:41 GMT |
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Despite the fact that it has been treated as a secondary platform, the PC is still quite important to the Assassin's Creed franchise, at least according to the publisher of the series, Ubisoft.
Assassin's Creed hasn't really found a great home on the PC, as both the first and second titles have reac... |
13 January 2011
03:45 GMT |
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After last week's news that certain games affected by the new Ubisoft digital rights management software have seen their restrictions loosened up, the French company has issued a statement about its software protection strategy on the PC.
Legal PC gamers were thrilled to hear last week that Ubisoft's res... |
10 January 2011
14:21 GMT |
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Two recent games from French company Ubisoft, Assassin's Creed 2 and Splinter Cell: Conviction, have seen a decrease in the security measures of the company's strict DRM software system, which ensured that the copy of the game was genuine on the PC.
According to reports from around the web, players no lo... |
3 January 2011
15:51 GMT |
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Windows Phone Marketplace, the app storefront that accompanies the new Windows Phone 7 operating system from the Redmond-based software giant Microsoft, has got its DRM (Digital Rights Management) security cracked, and a proof-of-concept video is available below. Basically, one developer came up with an application ... |
30 December 2010
04:17 GMT |
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The developers at CD Projekt who are working on the upcoming action role playing game The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings, have said that their title could be coming to home gaming consoles like the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3 just months after it arrives on the PC as long as the technology allows it and there'... |
26 November 2010
04:40 GMT |
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Currently available on a wide range of mobile operating systems out there, Netflix is expected to become available for handsets running under Google's Android operating system in early 2011, the company announced officially via a recent blog post. Windows Phone 7 devices already got the solution, while iPhone u... |
15 November 2010
03:44 GMT |
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Elemental: War of Magic, the latest release from PC developer Stardock, has been launched without any DRM attached, with the Chief Executive Officer of the company saying that the piracy problem can be solved through a registration process tied to the delivery of patches.Stardock is one of the companies that firmly b... |
25 August 2010
15:11 GMT |
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The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), a digital rights advocacy group, has managed to institute some interesting exemptions to the DMCA in the US that expand on the scope of ‘fair use’ activities. Specifically, the US Copyright Office and Librarian of Congress, at the request of the EFF, have made it ... |
27 July 2010
03:37 GMT |
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There are already dozens of Netflix-ready devices available to customers that leverage Windows Media DRM, with more on the way later this year integrating additional Microsoft Digital Rights Management technologies, after a new agreement inked by the Redmond company and Netflix. Per the deal penned by the duo, upcomi... |
26 May 2010
05:04 GMT |
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Will Ubisoft continue to push its new Digital Rights Management scheme for future titles? Despite the fact that there have been some problems with the titles using it until now, the French publisher seems determined to make sure pirates do not touch its upcoming line-up so the new system is here to stay, although wit... |
14 April 2010
07:38 GMT |
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Ubisoft is already in quite a bit of hot water with PC gamers and the French publisher seems unable or unwilling to actually patch things up. And a recent announcement shows that the future might see the rift between the two parties increase, as the launch date for Splinter Cell: Conviction for the PC is not two full... |
7 April 2010
05:07 GMT |
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Since Ubisoft announced that it was planning to require a constant Internet connection for all those interested in picking up its upcoming title on the PC, players have been wondering about what would happen if the servers the French publisher used for authentication would go down all of the sudden.Players found out ... |
8 March 2010
06:08 GMT |
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There seems to be a trend in PC gaming to make the price of AAA releases the same as they were when they came out on consoles. Activision Blizzard started it all when Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 made the PC version of their blockbuster first person shooter sell for 60 dollars, the same amount of money that gets a ... |
6 March 2010
10:51 GMT |
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A lot has been said about the new DRM measures that Ubisoft is testing and plans to implement for most of its future titles. The always on Internet connection and the save games that get put in the cloud have turned off quite a lot of the PC gamers whom the measures are supposed to target and it seems that one very r... |
26 February 2010
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A lot of people were annoyed when publisher Ubisoft announced that it planned to introduce a new anti-piracy scheme based around an online authentication every time the game is fired up and also on players being connected to the Internet and to the official servers for every second of every minute of playtime.The sch... |
23 February 2010
16:21 GMT |
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Ubisoft has announced its DRM plans for the PC version of Assassin's Creed II, but no one expected things to be this bad. We just hoped that, if we blinked really, really hard and snapped our fingers, we'd wake up and it would have all been just a bad dream. But reality is usually worse than what our nightm... |
18 February 2010
04:19 GMT |
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The Obama administration has announced the formation of a new task force set to handle infringements on intellectual properties. Eric Holder, who is the Attorney General of the United States, has said that growth in industries like computer software and videogames cannot be guaranteed unless developers are certain th... |
17 February 2010
03:47 GMT |
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The LA Times has gained knowledge that Apple will employ the FairPlay digital rights management system to protect iBookstore content from being pirated. Alongside the iPad announcement last month, Apple also announced the new iBooks app for iPad, which includes its new iBookstore. Apple hopes it will turn out to be t... |
16 February 2010
02:39 GMT |
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Ubisoft, as the publisher, and Blue Byte Software, as the developer, have announced the contents of the Collector's Edition for Settlers VII: Paths to a Kingdom, which is set to be delivered on the PC and Mac platforms on March 23 in North America and on March 25 in European territories. All those who are intere... |
9 February 2010
04:21 GMT |
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In the wake of its PC Beta debut, DICE has decided that it would also be a good time to reestablish the cosmic ying-yang balance and to not let ourselves be overwhelmed by warm emotions. As such, Bad Company 2's blog has just posted the game's DRM, along with rich details on how it works. Cutting down on th... |
28 January 2010
09:13 GMT |
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