While other platforms have started to dip their feet into the mobile Netflix sphere, Android in particular has been left out. We knew it was only going to be a matter of time before Netflix trickled down, though we weren’t sure exactly how it was going to go with all the different hardware devices on the market. The reason this matters is because Netflix relies on some pretty hefty DRM *puke* to keep the major content owners happy. And it is that same DRM...

At first, the title “100% legal to circumnavigate DRM for legal purposes” may seem a bit cryptic. As we’ve seen countless times throughout various governments, “legal uses” is a highly ambiguous and misleading term. But in the case of Brazil and their digital rights laws, it’s a far prettier picture as far as consumer protections are concerned. Here in the United States, it’s technically illegal to circumnavigate DRM (the digital...

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It’s always nice to here someone from the gaming industry speak out over the current course of DRM proliferation. We all have clearly seen the direction Ubisoft wants to go (read: fucking legitimate customers over time and time again). But that doesn’t mean all game developers are bad, stupid, or all of the above. No sir. There still is some hope left. Just Cause 2 developer and Avalanche Studio co-founder, Christofer Sundberg, has come out against the...

Another day, another game ruined by DRM. Or is it? A new development on the PS3 front is disappointing to put it mildly. Gamers across the blue marble we live on are noticing that trying to launch Final Fight: Double Impact when logged out of the PSN or in a location with network access are being prompted each and every time to log in. This would signal that Sony is testing a similar approach that Ubisoft is rolling out — always-on network connections to play...