Oh thank everything holy (or non-holy if that’s your cup of tea)! Game publisher Ubisoft has announced that they have “listend to customer feedback” regarding the “always-on” internet connection requirement for their new “Driver” game and decided to do away with it. While you’ll still need to have an internet connection to “log in” — to what? — at the game’s launch, it’s far less annoying...
Digital cancer (read: DRM) and the overall backwards stance movie studios and music publishers take towards end user copying of CDs/DVDs gets another victory — For us! — today. The UK government is this close to enacting a new law that will officially make it 100% legal to copy CDs and DVDs to computers and other mobile devices for “personal/home” use. Public (read: file sharing of any time) sharing without the copyright owners permission is still...
In many respects, consumers’ fight against one of the most flawed areas of modern technology — DRM — has been “won”. Fewer companies are relying on this digital cancer to push sales and are instead turning to offering truly unique and intriguing products and business models. Unfortunately, Motorola appears to be backpedalling with their recent purchase of DRM company SunUp. Motorola and SunUp claim that in order to continue offering advanced...
The BlackBerry PlayBook is one of the most hyped up tablets of 2011 due in part to the brand new QNX operating system. But that and all the power in the world can’t save it from the worst crutch — DRM. RIM has employed 7Digital as the PlayBook’s sole online music store. Mind you, 7Digital is chock full of DRM-laden music limited to a certain number (5) of devices with further restrictions such as the inability to use said “purchased” content...
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...
