Speed, like drugs, hobbies, food, and smoking is addictive. With speed, the adrenaline rush that follows is the natural high for some. In the tech world, while we ourselves may not be moving hundreds of miles per hour in the dopest ride, we do have certain objects that move at high velocity — hard drives. As far as old spinners go, the general rule of thumb is that the faster the drive spins, the faster it will perform. Now, this isn’t exact as a few other...
Simply put: DRM sucks. It’s bad for consumers and it’s bad for CS at the companies that decide to use it. The only people who are harmed are the very people the companies claim to protect. This time, it wasn’t another Ubisoft snafu (they had their stint over the weekend). Instead, just as Ubisoft begins to rub the weekend hangover junk out of their eyes, EA figures it’s time to have a miniature catastrophe of their own. Yes, EA’s DRM...
Well, this could be seen as a potential problem… RSA encryption has been cracked — 1024-bit encryption to be more precise. If you’re wondering who had the time and money to put together the necessary machinery to trim a several hundred year job (at best) down to a few months? It’s not quite as simple as you’d think. The more common way of breaking such security is by brute force. But the brute force needed to crack 1024 the...
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...
To many people, bitching about a video game’s DRM that resorts to requiring a constant internet connection seems stupid and like a waste of time. In the grander scheme of things — it is. But, if you focus on the core technological aspect of it, DRM is not a solution but a “fuel” to the piracy fire, only driving scores more towards paying less and less for products and services. Ubisoft as of late has found out just how much the tech crowd hates DRM...
