The Sims 3 will not feature the copy protection system that Electronic Arts had used to fan outrage on Spore, but a more standard serial number system (without any online authentication needed), the company has confirmed.
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UPDATE: The mysterious chip appears to be part of Apple’s Made For iPod certification scheme. While that’s not DRM, it still locks out any third party earphone manufacturers who don’t want to pay for the licence, and still means we’ll see price rises on approved products too.
The iPod shuffle earphones saga just took a nasty turn. The new iPod shuffle’s been busted open and dissected, and it looks like Apple‘s put a DRM chip in to prevent third party earphones controlling it. In other words, you’ll have to pay a premium for new Apple-approved headphones, or use the ones included. Read on for all the details.
Vodafone’s dropping DRM from its mobile music store, tying three of the world’s largest music publishers in to provide tracks completely DRM free to mobiles and computers.
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DRM. Awesome, isn’t it? The way it’s killing piracy. The way it empowers consumers. What a miracle of the modern world it is. But just occasionally things go wrong, as owners of the PC version of Gears of War discovered this week. An expired Windows digital certificate is preventing players from loading up their copies of their legitimately bought-and-paid-for game, presenting the following error message: “You cannot run the game with modified executable code. Please reinstall the game.”
With both Apple and Amazon leading the mainstream charge away from Digital Rights Management for downloadable music it makes perfect sense to offer a new downloadable music service that offers open files that can be moved freely between devices. Which is why Microsoft’s new MSN Mobile Music service, er, does the opposite.
We’d only been pondering whether iTunes would let you backdate DRM unlocks on songs you’d previously purchased for a few minutes when news came in from Apple that it would, with a simple one click solution – but it’ll cost you.