File this under First World Problems, but it continues to amaze how fawning and deferential those who cover video games for a living are toward the industry they nominally cover rather than work for. Today’s exhibit is Thomas McDonald’s column in the August 2012 issue of Maximum PC (page 10 of the PDF archive of…
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Teleread has a look at an all too typical case of what happens to people who are honest enough to actually put their hard earned money down and pay for ebooks crippled by DRM. Then I bought an iPad, and suddenly reading eBooks began to crowd out my paper book reading. I wasn’t alone. By…
The Apprentice Alf blog has a nice guide to removing DRM from most ebook formats using Calibre for Windows and some additional plugins.
Staci Kramer wrote an interesting take on the fact that Spore was apparently the most heavily pirated game in history — there were an estimated 500,000 downloads of cracked versions of the game from BitTorrent sites. At $50 apiece, Kramer’s take is that Electronic Arts left $25 million on the table in its efforts to…
This thread at Doom9.Org is simply beautiful in showing how a small number of determined individuals can so quickly dissect and disassemble the latest and greatest DRM, AACS. This follows a different assault on AACS back in December by another hacker. You have to wonder how much the movie industry pays for these DRM systems…
Bruce Schneier wrote an interesting essay for Wired highlighting the inherent problem of DRM which he likens to storing your valuables in a safe and then giving that safe to someone you don’t trust, Think of a stored-value smart card: If the person owning the card can break the security, he can add money to…