A Measured Reflection On The Death Of Physical Media
Sony were the ones to trigger the most recent outcry over customer's desire to actually own the games they buy instead of just renting them for an indeterminate amount of time. They…
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Tag: DRM
Podcast #655 – N-Gauge, Intel DRM, Microsoft Browser, 3090ti, SilverStone ALTA G1M Case Review + More!
Can't stop the PC Per signal, it's like pirate radio. Intel Alder Lake has just about got their DRM issues figured out, Microsoft is letting you have your browser and start menu, there's…
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Intel Alder Lake DRM Issue Nearly Resolved – Down to 3 Affected Games
As reported by Tom's Hardware, if you check Intel's support page for a List of Games Affected by DRM Issue in 12th Gen Intel Core Processors for Windows 11...
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DRM On A Dishwasher Spotted And Rinsed Clean
A small dishwasher that sits on the counter which can handle a few plates with cutlery and doesn't need to be permanently integrated into your plumbing seems to be a good idea…
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#INCLUDE POWER IF-USB DRM !=NULL
2019 is already shaping up to be an odd year as the USB Implementers Forum has proposed a way to utilize DRM for good! Instead of focusing on preventing you from displaying…
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“Five Layers of” UWP DRM Cracked
TorrentFreak is reporting that the software piracy group, CODEX, has broken the MSStore, UWP, EAppX, XBLive, and Arxan copy protection mechanisms protecting Zoo Tycoon Ultimate Animal Collection. Because this is...
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The Origin of the worlds most powerful DRM revealed!
More powerful than a speeding Core-i5, able to crash a Ryzen 3 in a single launch process; it's not a demo, it's not a plane, it's SuperDRM! Not only will Ubisoft's new…
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EFF Leaves the W3C over DRM Decision
On September 18th, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, EFF, announced that they were leaving the World Wide Web Consortium, W3C, due to its stance on DRM, effective immediately. This was published in the…
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Vega’s specs grow less vague
DRM finally did something good for us; revealing detailed information on AMD's new GPU. In this case the DRM is a portion of the Linux kernel which interfaces with the GPU and…
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PC Perspective Podcast 429 12/15/16
PC Perspective Podcast #428 - 12/8/16 Join us this week as we discuss AMD ReLive, Ryzen, Zalman Keyboards, LG HDR monitors and more! You can subscribe to us through iTunes and you can...
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DOOM Removes Denuvo DRM
Well this is an interesting news post for a couple of reasons. Personally, I dislike DRM. A lot. It’s software that reduces end-user rights, as both consumers and potentially even...
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HP Claims They’re “Dedicated to the Best Printing Experience”
Recently, HP released a firmware update for some inkjet printers that disabled certain third-party cartridges. The claim is that the customer “is exposed to quality and potential security risks” when...
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Mirror’s Edge: Catalyst DRM Rumors Are Wrong
GamersNexus wrote a piece that claimed Mirror's Edge: Catalyst has DRM that limits the number of hardware changes to four. According to an email from EA's press contact, it turns...
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Firefox 38 Launches with (and also without) DRM Support
Mozilla has just released Firefox 38. With it comes the controversial Adobe Primetime DRM implementation through the W3C's Encrypted Media Extensions (EME). Or, maybe not. If you upgrade the browser...
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If you already own S.T.A.L.K.E.R. you can get it for free from GOG
That title and the offer it describes might sound dumb at first glance, but if you happen to have a retail copy of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. that isn't so scratched it is unusable,…
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Console DRM Woes? Try Some Good Old PC Games Instead!
With the outage over Christmas of both Xbox Live and PlayStation Network (both pretty much restored, though it took Sony much longer to recover) many console gamers were unable to...
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EFF Wants Legal DRM Circumvention for Art Preservation
This is something that I have been saying for quite some time now: games are struggling as an art form. Now I don't mean that games are not art; games, like all…
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Mozilla Firefox to Implement Adobe DRM for Video
Needless to say, DRM is a controversial topic and I am clearly against it. I do not blame Mozilla. The non-profit organization responsible for Firefox knew that they could not...
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