Apple has inked a deal that points to a follow up to the new Apple TV packing support for live shows and DVR functions. Is the future of Apple’s most prominent hobby a little more serious or is the Cupertino crew after other tech entirely? Read on for our reading of the signs…
Tagged ‘DRM’
Assassin’s Creed 2 is currently unplayable thanks to a problem with Ubisoft’s servers. The new DRM system on new Ubisoft games including Assassin’s Creed 2 and Silent Hunter 5 requires players to be online to play the games on their PC (including single-player). Have you been locked out of Assassin’s Creed 2?
Michael Fricklas, general counsel at entertainment mega-corp Viacom, has admitted that suing end users for online copyright infringement is “expensive, painful and feels like bullying.”
Ofcom has told the BBC that it will not yet allow the broadcaster to add DRM to its HD TV broadcasts. The decision comes after a two-week consultation period by the regulator which found, surprise, surprise, that the public just don’t like DRM. But is the BBC’s dream of DRM drenched HD TV broadcasts dead? Read on to find out.
Before The Sims 3 even launched, it suffered from a staggering scale of piracy at the hands of Bit Torrent users. So how is EA’s CEO John Riccitiello taking it? Surprisingly well, actually; in fact he even went so far as to jokingly refer to it as “our secret marketing campaign.”
The The Sims 3, due out on 5 June, has already been leaked onto the Internet. And analysis of its download popularity from peer-to-peer file sharing sites shows that it is suffering worse piracy even than recent EA title Spore.
EA’s heavy-handed DRM policies have caused some serious backlash from the gaming community, but it looks like the publisher is mending its ways. Having bowed to pressure and released a tool for unlocking Spore from your system, EA has now extended the gesture to another 17 titles released since May 2008. You can download it here.