Neowin News Feed for: Drm

Ubisoft finally dumps "always on" DRM for PC games

John Callaham — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 11:53:10 +0100

Ubisoft has now announced it is finally getting rid of its "always on" Internet connection policy for its PC games, which has upset most PC gamers since the publisher put that policy into effect. Read more...

Trivia Tuesday: Some facts about software piracy

Tim Schiesser — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 12:07:41 +0000

Here at Neowin we're hoping you're enjoying your Tuesday, as this week's Trivia focuses on piracy, which is still a major issue for content providers worldwide. Read on for some facts about piracy Read more...

Hollywood plots a new DRM plan for "HD media ownership"

Alfonso Maruccia — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 01:30:12 +0000

A new coalition of IT companies and Hollywood giants plans to develop a DRM standard to store and move digital HD contents across a wide range of devices. Your money, their ownership? Read more...

Microsoft, Google and Netflix are trying to bring DRM to HTML5

Alfonso Maruccia — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 00:58:53 +0000

The three companies have proposed a new HTML5 API for copy-protected delivery of multimedia digital contents. The proposal is up for discussion at the moment, but so far, things are not looking good for the backers. Read more...

CD Projekt taking legal action against alleged stealers of The Witcher 2

Nathan Tsui — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 01:43:53 +0000

CD Projekt, the Polish developers of the critically acclaimed PC RPG The Witcher 2, has confirmed that it is taking legal action and asking compensation from users who allegedly pirated their game. Read more...

CD Projekt refuses to add DRM to The Witcher 2

Paul Ferson — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 01:27:30 +0000

Despite figures suggesting that The Witcher 2 has been pirated upwards of 4.5 million times the game's developers have stated they will not be adding DRM. Read more...

Avalanche Studios: DRM is not the answer

Paul Ferson — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 20:07:49 +0100

Christofer Sundberg, of Avalanche Studios, shares a markedly different opinion of how DRM damages gaming during an interview. Read more...

Ubisoft claim controversial game DRM is "a success"

Tim Schiesser — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 05:41:33 +0100

Ubisoft has recently branded their controversial always-on DRM as “a success,” despite outrage from legitimate paying customers and pirates having already circumvented their tough anti-piracy measures. Speaking to PC Gamer, an Ubisoft representative said they... Read more...

The Witcher 2 dev team sued in part because of doing away with DRM

John Callaham — Sat, 09 Jul 2011 13:40:10 +0100

Gamers were shocked and surprised, in a good way, with The Witcher 2's developer CD Projekt Red decided to do away with the DRM set up in the recent fantasy RPG game. Now it appears... Read more...

The Witcher 2 1.1 patch eliminates DRM for all copies of the PC game

John Callaham — Fri, 27 May 2011 07:33:12 +0100

If you bought the recently released fantasy RPG sequel The Witcher 2 from any other outlet besides the GoG.com web site (owned by the game's developer CD Projekt) you had to deal with a DRM... Read more...

Google's new movie rental service is blocked if your device is rooted

Steve Donaghy — Sat, 21 May 2011 21:54:01 +0100

In what's sure to surprise quite a few people, Google has decided to block their new Movie rental service on all rooted Android devices, according to a report from Android Central. "Rooting" is a common practice... Read more...

Many Mac App Store applications cracked, hours after the store launches [Update]

Simon Andrews — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 00:57:49 +0000

Hours after Apple launched its brand new Mac App Store, which brought the App Store model from the iPad, iPhone and iPod touch to the company's Macintosh computers, Neowin has learned that many applications have... Read more...

HDCP cracked? Tweeter posts 'master key'

Brody McKee — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 14:27:42 +0100

One of the things making today’s Twitter headlines was the supposed release of the HDCP 'master key' – a key that allows the hacking of any HDCP-protected content for any HDCP-protected device. Currently, there’s not... Read more...

Google responds to Android DRM hack

Owen Williams — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 23:53:37 +0100

Earlier this week Neowin covered news on how Google's new licensing service, recently announced to combat Android piracy, had already been hacked and was also relatively easy to do so. Google has now responded to... Read more...

Final Fight on PS3 - DRM to require internet connection

Brandon Boyce — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 18:20:01 +0100

Earlier this year Ubisoft released Assassin's Creed 2 with DRM that required you to be online to play the game. Even if you only wanted to play single player you still had to have an... Read more...

Skidrow hacks Assassin's Creed 2 DRM

Tzvi Friedman — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 05:01:35 +0100

Gamers had their revenge this week as the infamous implementation of Ubisoft's "always-on" DRM, released with Assassin's Creed 2, was successfully circumvented by the hacking group Skidrow. The new DRM system, now included in every... Read more...

Ofcom blocks BBC's Freeview HD DRM plans

Matthew Hopson — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 23:46:44 +0000

The BBC's plans for using digital rights management to prevent unauthorised usage of material broadcast on the coming Freeview HD service have been blocked by industry regulator Ofcom. The BBC had planned to let people... Read more...

Spore tops list of top ten most pirated games

Matthew Hopson — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 13:53:16 +0000

Will Wright's evolution based game, Spore, is the most pirated game of 2008, according to a list of the top ten most pirated games, posted on the TorrentFreak blog last Thursday. TorrentFreak used data... Read more...

Wal Mart decides to keep DRM Servers

Iian K — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 11:16:45 +0100

Those rumors that went on about last week of Wal Mart keeping their DRM servers appear to be true. In an email sent out to Wal Mart Music store customers, Wal Mart stated that they... Read more...

Walmart to shut down DRM servers

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 10:41:00 +0100

Walmart is becoming the latest music vendor to shut down its legacy digital rights management (DRM) system, prompting warnings of potential for lost purchases. The company is advising users to back up any songs which... Read more...