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Ubisoft's new DRM solution: you have be online to play
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| Ubisoft does not have the best history when
| it comes to invasiveâif not downright brokenâ
| DRM, but the company's upcoming "solution" to
| game piracy is much worse than anything we've
| seen in the past. The gist is simple: every
| time you want to play your game, it has to
| phone back to Ubisoft before giving you
| permission to play. No Internet connection?
| You're simply out of luck.
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http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2010/01/ubisofts-new-drm-solution-you-have-be-online-to-play.ars
With Kindle, the Best Sellers Donât Need to Sell
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| Thatâs right. More than half of the âbest-
| sellingâ e-books on the Kindle, Amazon.comâs
| e-reader, are available at no charge.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/23/books/23kindle.html?pagewanted=all
Recent:
O'Reilly drops ebook DRM, sees 104% increase in sales
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| It's been 18 months since O'Reilly, the
| world's largest publisher of tech books,
| stopped using DRM on its ebooks. In the
| intervening time, O'Reilly's ebook sales
| have increased by 104 percent. Now, when you
| talk about ebooks and DRM, there's always
| someone who'll say, "But what about
| [textbooks|technical books|RPG manuals]?
| Their target audience is so wired and
| online, why wouldn't they just copy the
| books without paying? They've all got the
| technical know-how."
|
| So much for that theory.
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http://www.boingboing.net/2010/01/22/oreilly-drops-ebook.html
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