DRM in Game Systems

Saturday, March 2nd, 2019 (No comments yet)

Oh no! People are stealing our games!

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I had to laugh when I read this today at Penny-Arcade:

All of this confusion for paying customers, so that pirates will be detained an additional fifteen minutes before they descend, their scythes awhirl.

For those who don't know, Penny-Arcade is a site that has been doing comics centered on the gaming industry for years. This commentary refers to the various tricks and traps companies use to try to prevent people from pirating games that don't work and may never work. Ordinary players are bothered and inconvenienced essentially for no reason.

Tags: Defective by Design, DRM, Gaming, penny arcade

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