Archive for the 'DRM' Category

Witcher 2 DRM Dumped, But CD Projekt Is Watching Torrents

Friday, May 27th, 2011

Following reports that security features were damaging the playing experience of The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings, today CD Projekt will release an update to remove all DRM from the game. But while the company informs TorrentFreak it was pleased to avoid a pre-release on this major title, as promised it will monitor and go after illegal file-sharers.

Source: Witcher 2 DRM Dumped, But CD Projekt Is Watching Torrents

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Garry’s Mod Creator Trolls Pirates With Prank DRM

Wednesday, April 13th, 2011

A subset of Garry’s Mod users have been noticing a hugely annoying bug lately. Upon launching the game they get the message that it’s “unable to shade polygon normals,” after which the Steam-run game quickly crashes. In a response to thousands of complaining users, the game’s creator has now admitted that the bug is actually a feature, but one that only affects those who pirated the game.

Source: Garry’s Mod Creator Trolls Pirates With Prank DRM

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Garry’s Mod Creator Trolls Pirates With Prank DRM

Wednesday, April 13th, 2011

A subset of Garry’s Mod users have been noticing a hugely annoying bug lately. Upon launching the game they get the message that it’s “unable to shade polygon normals,” after which the Steam-run game quickly crashes. In a response to thousands of complaining users, the game’s creator has now admitted that the bug is actually a feature, but one that only affects those who pirated the game.

Source: Garry’s Mod Creator Trolls Pirates With Prank DRM

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Cinavia DRM Aimed to Stop Piracy On Blu-ray, PS3s

Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010


Haven’t heard about Cinavia? Chances are, you will soon if you download pirated movies and attempt to play them back on a Blu-ray player or through a PS3. Cinavia is a somewhat new DRM technology that uses "audio watermarking" embedded into the audio stream portion of a movie. In a nutshell, what it does is [...]

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DRM Fiasco Ruins James Cameron’s Avatar 3D Preview

Thursday, December 17th, 2009

Avatar, the long-awaited science fiction epic from James Cameron will launch this week, but already some lucky individuals have seen the movie. The same cannot be said of attendees at a 3D preview showing in Germany yesterday though. The movie’s DRM ‘protection’ system failed and the video could not be decoded.

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Apple Says Audiobooks Must Have DRM

Saturday, December 12th, 2009

Audio DRM has all but dissapeared from MP3s. Apple said earlier this year that there would be no more DRM on music available via the ITunes music store. However, as prolific writer and blogger Cory Doctorow has found out, they still require DRM on their Audiobooks.

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