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Australian gamers unable to play Settlers 7 due to DRM woes
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| Our review of The Settlers 7 concluded that
| fans of city building, micromanagement RTS
| games could do worse than check it out, with
| particular reference to the robust community
| features of online multiplayer.
|
| Sounds great! I'm sure we're all going to love
| it! There's just one problem - most of us
| can't, thanks to ongoing issues with Ubisoft's
| controversial new "always online" DRM.
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http://games.on.net/article/8521/Australian_gamers_unable_to_play_Settlers_7_due_to_DRM_woes
Recent:
A Saint Patrickâs Day special: Further Thoughts on Manuscripts, Marginalia, Mashups and Reading as Writing
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| I wrote a post the other day about Digital
| Manuscripts, Reading as Writing, and the danger
| of of âdigital rights managementâ (DRM). The New
| York Times today provided a lovely follow up in
| the shape of an article â Turning Green With
| Literacy â about the Irish role in saving the
| book after the Roman Empire collapsed.
|
| [...]
|
| DRM is designed to prevent playfulness. But the
| smartest people in publishing realise that the
| future will be ludic â George Walkley, who runs
| digital strategy at Hachette recently told me of
| the importance of making publishing more âludicâ
| or game-like.
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http://www.redmonk.com/jgovernor/2010/03/17/a-saint-patricks-day-special-further-thoughts-on-manuscripts-marginalia-mashups-and-reading-as-writing/
Support Of Bigpond Music Wma Downloads & Drm Licence Keys To Be Discontinued
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| This means you will no longer be able to
| download replacement Digital Rights
| Management (DRM) âunlockâ licence keys for
| the WMA files youâve bought from us is in the
| past â so you should back up your music and
| DRM licence keys now.
|
| Any MP3 files youâve downloaded from BigPond
| Music will not be affected.
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http://bigpondmusic.com/WMA_support/?cid=30070-wma
How to get DRM-free PC games: Just wait
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| Gamers have long known that patience is
| rewarded with cheaper, less-buggy games. But
| does that adage hold true for the inclusion
| of digital rights management as well? Not
| always, but history does show us that time
| makes even the strictest of DRM less sucky.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-27076_3-20000506-248.html
DRM: Or temporary DRM
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| I've always thought that in a copyright free
| world (and de facto that is our online world
| now - whatever they law may proclaim) DRM had
| a role to play. Not the role of permanently
| putting content under lock and key - that
| isn't feasible. But it is possible to use DRM
| on a short-term basis for new releases to
| give some short-term monopoly power - and
| this might provide some useful incentive for
| creation, while being largely self-limiting.
| By unlocking the content after a brief period
| of initial sales the incentive to crack the
| DRM is greatly reduced, while from a revenue
| point of view, most of the money is from the
| initial sales anyway.
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http://www.againstmonopoly.org/index.php?perm=593056000000002678
Ubisoftâs Uber DRM Cracked Within a Day
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| Last month the gaming giant Ubisoft announced their new Ãber-DRM which
| requires customers to be continuously online in order to play purchased
| games. Of course, this DRM was circumvented in a few hours and while
| downplaying this blunder, Ubisoft fails to see that theyâve only increased piracy.
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http://torrentfreak.com/ubisofts-uber-drm-cracked-within-a-day-100304/
Audiobook DRM versus the patrons of the Cleveland Library
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| This installment of the Brads webcomic shows the 22
| steps a reader has to take in order to borrow a DRM-crippled
| audiobook from the public library. A compelling argument for
| libraries to boycott this stuff.
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http://www.boingboing.net/2010/03/02/audiobook-drm-versus.html
The Brads â Why DRM Doesnât Work
http://www.bradcolbow.com/archive.php/?p=205
Ubisoft DRM Gets Worse And Worse: Kicks You Out Of Game If You Have A Flakey WiFi Connection
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| Last month, we wrote a bit about Ubisoft's
| bizarre anti-consumer policy of using DRM on
| games that requires an internet connection
| to check in (even if you're just playing
| locally).
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20100218/1514238229.shtml
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