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. More...
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 More...
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? More...
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. More...
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. More...
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. More...
Christofer Sundberg, of Avalanche Studios, shares a markedly different opinion of how DRM damages gaming during an interview. More...
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... More...
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... More...
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... More...
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... More...
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... More...
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... More...
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... More...
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... More...
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... More...
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... More...
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... More...
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... More...
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... More...
Customers who have purchased music from Microsoft's now-defunct MSN Music store are now facing a decision they never anticipated making: commit to which computers (and OS) they want to authorize forever, or give up access... More...
SlySoft, the Antigua-based company behind AndDVD HD, has claimed that it knows how to defeat the additional BD+ encryption available on Blu-ray devices, and that BD+ movies will be cracked by the end of the... More...
Norway's liberal party, Venstre, approved a resolution seeking to limit technologies, such as DRM, that limit how consumers can use and distribute legally purchased digital music or software. Venstre demands changes to current copyright legislation... More...
Vista has been delayed! The team discusses what a disaster this could be for Microsoft, as well as Bill Gates speaking on the delays in IE7. Firefox is taking up the slack with their 2.0... More...
After the Sony rootkit fiasco, you'd think that companieswould have learned their lesson involving dangerous copy protection methods.Well according to some rather alarming news from cdfreaks.com, it appears thatStarforce is following in the footsteps of... More...
The UK Sunday Times newspaper unleashed a neat little trojan that'll upgrade you to Windows Media Player 9, complete with all those lovely facilities to protect 'your' music...If you're not careful, that is. ... More...