It never ceases to amaze me how uterly retarded, stupid, and incompetent the movie studios and “the old Hollywood” in general really are. Todays fluster cluck of DRM spotlight features Avatar and the unplayable disc. I’m seeing reports all over the web (Consumerist in particular) of new Avatar customers unwrapping their new gift only to find it unplayable in their Blu-ray players. Effective DRM, huh? From what I’ve gathered both in articles and...
Ya, there’s a lot of gaming related news today. Sorry if it’s not your thing. But it happens to be something I feel is important — Ubisoft needlessly destroying their future with their senseless and apparently “vital” always-on DRM. It started a month or so back when Ubisoft debuted two new games — Settlers VII and Assassins Creed 2 — with a new type of DRM that required a constant connection to the internet. The company pushed...
DRM. Ya, we all hate it as it serves absolutely no purpose at all other than to piss of end users. We all know the claim by now. Somehow this digital cancer helps fight piracy. What the companies who employ it don’t really know however is that it actually pushed more people to piracy. It’s not rocket science people. A couple of weeks ago when Ubisoft’s genius (sarcasm) idea to require all future games to require “always on” internet...
That old saying “what kool aid are you drinking” couldn’t be any more perfect in the situation involving Ubisoft and their new “always on” DRM. We’ve already ranted about it several times before for it’s awful implementaion and methodology. Yesterday we found out just how much it sucks when a game that requires a live connection to a remote server has said server go down…for hours on end. Common sense would have the company...
If there was ever a time in life when you needed a good real example of double standards, look no further than Metallica. Long time advocates of stricter DRM regulations, the destruction of all digital music sales, and other ridiculous proposals that have truly aged the band well beyond what they want to appear. The double standard that I am talking about deals with an admission by Lars Ulrich, the drummer for Metallica, who claims to have pirated Metallica’s...
