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SpiralFrog dogged by DRM issues, unhappy investors
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| Switching to the question of SpiralFrog's DRM; some of the site's users are
| bitter about losing their music. When SpiralFrog went dark, CEO Joe Mohen
| said that SpiralFrog's music would be available for an additional 60 days.
| What Mohen meant was that if users visited the site on the last day the
| service operated and updated the DRM on their songs, they would have access
| for two months from that day.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10250476-93.html
Landmark study: DRM truly does make pirates out of us all
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| A UK researcher has spent years interviewing people about whether DRM has
| affected their ability to use content in ways ordinarily protected by the
| law. Surprise! It has, even leading one sight-impaired woman to piracy.
|
| It's a well-known story by now: Europe, the US, and plenty of other countries
| have made it generally illegal to circumvent DRM, even when users want to do
| something legal with the content. Sure, it sounds bad and Ars complains about
| it all the time, but come on—do anticircumvention laws really prevent real
| people in the real world from doing real things with their content? Or are
| the complaints largely dreamed up by copyleft activists who would like
| nothing more than to see the term "intellectual property" disappear into the
| tentacled maw of Cthulhu?
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http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/05/landmark-study-drm-truly-does-make-pirates-out-of-us-all.ars
Recent:
DRM Hell
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| Now, for those that have not kept up, Microsoft charges for their software
| and not a small amount either. If you want to charge me to use your software,
| and I find a value in using your software, I have no problem paying you. What
| Microsoft and others does to control their licenses is this – they create a
| unique signature based on the activation key and ten or so hardware component
| IDs. Change a percentage of the hardware and you invalidate the key.
| Invalidate the key and…
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http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/drm-hell
Anti-DMCA crusaders fight for the right to crack DRM
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| Every three years, the Copyright Office lets the public ask for exemptions to
| the DMCA's tough anti-circumvention requirements. Ars talks to three people
| who will be fighting for your rights to crack DRM, starting tomorrow.
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http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/04/fight-for-your-right-to-crack-drm.ars
DRM should be disclosed on game-boxes
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| Ars Technica has a report from the FTC's hearings on DRM, where Hal Halpin
| from the Entertainment Consumers Association proposed that game manufacturers
| should be required to disclose what kind of DRM they're using prior to
| purchase ("WARNING: World of Warcraft contains spyware called Warden to stop
| you from cheating -- it checks files and registry settings here and here,
| hides itself from the process manager, etc") and to stick to a set of
| standard EULA terms that everyday people can understand.
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http://www.boingboing.net/2009/03/30/drm-should-be-disclo.html
Electronic Arts releases DRM-removal tool
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| Electronic Arts has released a de-activation tool for removing the SecuRom
| digital rights management that the company earlier deployed on several of its
| games. SecuROM is known as the most Draconian DRM tool for games, apt to
| screw u your computer and harm your ability to play the games you bought.
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http://www.boingboing.net/2009/03/31/electronic-arts-rele.html
EA 'dumps DRM' for next Sims game
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| Electronic Arts have confirmed that the next version of The Sims will be free
| of Digital Rights Management (DRM).
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7972677.stm
Gears of War PC digital certificate expires, kills the game
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| Users on the Gears of War official forums are reporting that the digital
| certificates for the game have expired, as of 28th January 2009. This means
| that the game will not launch at a system date post-28th Jan. Obviously, this
| is awful news for those people who enjoy playing the game on the PC, since
| unless they keep their system date before the 28th, they cannot play the
| game.
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http://www.ripten.com/2009/01/29/gears-of-war-pc-digital-certificate-expires-kills-the-game/
New Class-Action Suits Target EA, SecuROM, The Sims & Spore Creature Creator
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| GamePolitics has learned that a pair of new class-action lawsuits were lodged
| against Electronic Arts in October. Both suits were filed with the U.S.
| District Court for the Northern District of California and both target EA's
| use of the controversial SecuROM digital rights management (DRM) software on
| the company's PC games.
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http://www.gamepolitics.com/2008/11/08/new-class-action-suits-target-ea-securom-sims-amp-spore-creature-creator
EA Sued Repeatedly Over DRM
http://techdirt.com/articles/20081108/1752332772.shtml
EA in Spore DRM climbdown
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| Critics claim DRM limiting those who bought the hotly anticipated sim to only
| three installs amounts to no more than renting the software out, rather than
| selling it. DRM also prevented players from creating more than one user
| account per copy of Spore — even though the game's literature specifically
| states otherwise.
|
| As what is now a matter of routine with modern PC games, pirates managed to
| crack the game's DRM restrictions within a day of the game's release and
| hosted this de-restricted content on certain nefarious file-sharing websites.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09/22/public_knowledge_fights_copyright_enforcement_bill/
Did 'Spore' copy protections backfire on EA?
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| Enraged by what they call "draconian" copyright protections, thousands of
| people flooded Amazon.com to give the game a one-star rating. And now there
| seems to be another movement afoot, one that is far more likely to hit EA
| where it counts.
|
| What's the fuss about? Electronic Arts imposed copyright protections that
| limited the number of times a user can install the game to three. EA has
| likened the system to the limits imposed on songs bought through Apple's
| iTunes store (though in the case of iTunes, users can easily manage their
| libraries by specifying which computers are authorized to play their
| purchased content).
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-13772_3-10041188-52.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
DRM Helps Spore Make History as The Most Pirated Game Ever
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| Spore, a Sim-like game about the evolution of creatures, was recently
| released as one of the most anticipated games of the year. Our initial
| impressions were high with the release of SporeCreator. However, Spore itself
| failed to meet our expectations. In the end, we found the game to be too
| simple for our tastes.
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http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/drm_is_helping_spore_make_history_as_the_most_pirated_game_ever.php
Related:
Vista DRM to slow down high-end graphics? [update 1]
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| We've posted before on how the Vista brand will change the PC gaming
| market. But how will the OS affect the gameplay experience itself?
| An in-depth analysis of the operating system's draconian digital
| rights management features suggests gamers might not be too happy
| with some of the system's unintended performance effects.
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http://www.joystiq.com/2006/12/25/vista-drm-to-slows-down-high-end-graphics/
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