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It looks like drm gets cracked very easy. Why would companies waste thousands of dollars or millions on drm if it does. It work? It makes the experience less enjoyable in my opinion. So should game companies stop making drm protection software? -
Insert puking emoticon here: Because being able to freely use your computer is soooo 2000s.
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Me and my family are on vacation and we are trying to use Vudu to watch a movie on the big TV in the hotel room with an HDMI cable from my laptop. However, when we try to play it, we get an error saying that it cannot play because of copyright issues, because the TV is not HDCP compliant. It seems like we are probably just screwed, but is there any way to get around this?
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So anyone remember the new DRM check Oculus added? Guess what, its been bypassed! Unfortunately this bypass could enable piracy. Basically I would be surprised if no one saw this coming; trying to create a form of exclusivity in PC is going to be near impossible and is going to take a massive effort from Oculus. I wouldn't astonished if Oculus broke ReVive again, but I don't expect them to find a permeant solution to prevent ReVive. And to add insult to injury: source: http://www.overclock3d.net/articles/gpu_displays/revive_update_bypasses_oculus_rift_drm_check/1
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Hi, I'm a little peeved that Apple will not let me play content I have purchased outside of their proprietary player. I have a Macbook, but my desktop is Windows. Does anyone know how to convert Apple's protected .m4v files into something that can play on VLC or a similar video player? Cheers
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3DM Leader Bird Sister According to the new announcement the group leader Bird Sister said that they are not done yet. Well it seems like the previous announcement was more of a publicity stunt. Let's see what Linus and Luke think about it. SOURCE: TORRENT FREAK
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Apparently, one particular kind of DRM protection persists in giving more and more headaches to game crackers. If you wonder why there's still no working pirated release of Just Cause 3, look no further: Source: https://torrentfreak.com/no-more-pirate-games-in-two-years-group-warns-160106/
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Which has the best song quality download I can purchase music from? Amazon or Itunes or Googleplay or the band store itself? I want to pre-order the upcoming Lifehouse album 'Out of the wasteland' which will be out the end of this month and I have never bought any music digitally before. It was either cassette, cd or just stream from online. There's no cd player on my macbook so physical cd is not an option anymore (i wish i still have my discman). Are all of them DRM free and can be played anywhere? Thanks. I'm a huge fan of Lifehouse btw. So happy they are coming to London in October.
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Oh you don't say Keurig? You don't say that coming with some arbitrary DRM on your single serve coffee cups was bad? Really? You, who hard what might've been considered one of the more popular systems on the market because of how easy it ws to use your own grinds and combinations without needing to "hack" your own coffee maker. Giving the age old reminder that companies only give a shit when it affects their bottom line, they reversed their decision AFTER it killed their stock prices. Not before. Not a day or two after the decision. Nope. http://arstechnica.com/business/2015/05/keurig-stock-drops-10-percent-says-it-was-wrong-about-drm-coffee-pods/ -
Source: EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation) (Archive in case it goes down) Restoring old games is hacking, and all hacking is piracy, and all hacking is illegal!.... Right? (WRONG) You smell that? Yeah, it... smells like bull. No, it's not April 1st, I've almost got no words for this. This has to be the worst thing I've heard this year, at least so far. This is no different than the patent trolling that goes on in the industry, people like this keep relating things to piracy to stigmatise and scaremonger. Regardless of whether they're right or wrong in saying that hacking old games is piracy or not (which they are completely incorrect in saying) it doesn't matter, the general public will believe them and the consumers will not get any support. It's almost as if they care for nothing aside from money and business, it's like they become enraged when they see people doing things for free. I'm done, here's the quotes from the article. "The Entertainment Software Association doesn't want anyone to restore the functionality of older videogames that are no longer supported by their publisher, because, says ESA, this is "hacking," and all hacking is "associated with piracy." "Behind this hyperbole, ESA (along with MPAA and RIAA) seem to be opposing anyone who bypasses game DRM for any reason, no matter how limited or important.- 41 replies
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Sorry if this is a drm question, but...
MoonDoggy-X posted a topic in CPUs, Motherboards, and Memory
I was planning on starting my build this coming Friday, but I am still up un the air between the 5920k and the 4790k. So my plan now is to upgrade the rest of my system and the choose between z97 and x99 in a month or 2 since W10 and DX12 are slated for release Q2 of this year. Thats where I have a few questions... 1) If I buy a SSD and Windows 8.1 now, will it act funny when I change out my CPU and MOBO? I imagine it should work, but when I tried to use the HDD out of a used Gateway when I built my current rig it did not work. My current OS is an OEM copy. 2) If I buy games now(hard copies), will I run into DRM trouble when I change out my CPU and MOBO. Like, will they games think they are in a whole new computer, or will it be fine if they are still on the original storage device. Right now, I only have STO, DCUO and Planetside 2 I'm not worried about them. I do want to get Witcher 1 and 2, BF4, DA: Inquisition and Skyrim(mostly to see how pretty it is compared to Xbox) but don't want to run into problems when I upgrade. Sorry, I havent really upgraded more than just my GPU(s) and PSU in over 6 years, so I never really had to worry about this before. As always, any help with this will be greatly appreciated. -
The intrusive hardware tracking DRM makes a return with EA's latest title: Battlefield Hardline. Reviewers conducting benchmarks with the newly released title have been hit by Hardline's DRM wall after swapping hardware during testing. 'After testing merely a handful of graphics cards I noticed EA will now lock your game with the following message: "We're sorry, an error has occurred. Too many computers have accessed this account's version of battlefield Hardline Digital Deluxe recently. Please try again later."' The DRM implemented into the game, intended to stop piracy, seems to be recording the hardware ID numbers of the components in your system and after 5 changes to the hardware, the associated account is blocked for 24 hours. While this is not a new form of DRM, it goes to show that publishers are persisting with forms of DRM that ultimately hurt the legitimate users as well as those who attempt to provide media coverage of the game at launch. The PC has the potential to unquestionably be the best gaming platform, sadly however, it seems like game studios are doing their best to make us want to go back to using consoles. Source: http://www.guru3d.com/news-story/ea-infects-battlefield-hardline-with-new-ghastly-drm.html -
A system designed to lock out third-party competitors just enraged consumers I like systems like this. I know there are people on the internet who will despise the idea of buying little plastic cups filled with ready to go coffee/latte/syrup/etc but for a lot of people, the ease of use is unparalleled and compared to some of the lattes that Second Cup/Starbucks (which are delicious and but expensive), a cup based system can be really economical for some. Keurig however, are a bunch of dumbasses. Putting DRM on coffee? Not a smooth move at all. No wonder people were pissed. Going after the sacred institution of the coffee bean and trying to lock it down to only accept your cups and not any old piece of plastic (like the old ones)? Foolish move. Maybe the hurt that slow sales put on their financials sent them a proper message on how to handle the grave issue of coffee DRM. http://www.theverge.com/2015/2/5/7986327/keurigs-attempt-to-drm-its-coffee-cups-totally-backfired
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Got a G27 for xmas and have a lack of racing/rally games and i'm wondering if DiRT3 still has GFWL incorporated into it? GFWL = Games For Windows Live (GFWL is required for saving in these games)
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Makes sense. Netflix would have to redo their licensing agreements across the globe and implement some form of DRM that even allowed for offline viewing. It sucks, but there is only so much Netflix could offer consumers while still being allowed by the studios that allow them the content in the first place. http://www.engadget.com/2014/12/17/netflix-crushes-our-dreams/?ncid=rss_truncated http://www.techradar.com/news/video/netflix-offline-viewing-is-never-going-to-happen--1277413#null
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Source: http://www.3dmgame.com/news/201412/3406040.html Translation: What do you guys think about that?
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I just got an email from GOG talking about a recent update to their site. Video: GOG is now selling movies, and they're starting with documentaries. A part of this is that you can get 2 movies for free in order to see what it's like. In addition, there are now local currencies added: EUR, GBP, AUD and RUB. (Euro, Great British Pound, Australian Dollar and Russian Ruble.) Along with that, if there is a price markup within your region, GOG will give you the difference back in store credit. The standard price is based off of US pricing. I think this is all pretty cool, but I don't understand why GOG gives you in store credit, rather than just not charging you the extra amount. I'm sure someone can tell me why there's a probably rather stupid system in place that causes this. -
Hello, new member here. I've been trying to figure this out for the best part of a weekend now to no success. I'm moving soon and my only computer will be an Acer S3-391 ultrabook that I had lying around. Problem is, it had a 500GB HDD full of bloatware and the drive was pretty slow to start with. So I swapped that out for an old yet reliable Intel 520 120GB ssd. Luckily I already had Windows installed so I could re-install within Windows once it was on my new laptop but here's the problem. If I want to reinstall using USB it won't work. Apparently OEMs now stick their Windows activation key in the BIOS and Windows will always check that rather than letting you enter your own. I've tried editing the PID.txt and EI.txt files in my USB installer to no success. Is there any way you lot know of to bypass the BIOS activation so I can activate using my legit product key?
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Before you leave some snarky comment and leave this page, hear me out for a bit. I usually never condone piracy (if you've ever heard me before, you'd know that, let alone take part in it, but I felt it was my civic duty to in the case of Watch Dogs. It's the second time I have pirated something in the last year (last time it was mafia 2 so I could mod it, due to the legit game taking away this functionality). Pirating watch dogs (and Mafia 2) was quite easy. I used the Skidrow site, and a few clicks later, it was downloading, whether through my browser or bit-torrent. 12hrs later, it was sitting there ready to be unzipped and played. Once downloaded I didn't have to once: - Log in to anything - Download a lengthy patch for a DRM site - Connect ingame to the internet - Hassle around with some sort of launcher - Wait for a server to respond - Have an internet connection at all After I had extracted it, it was ready. I could place the folder anywhere on my machine, and it would simply run with the executable. I distinctly remember having this same experience, yet supporting the developer. Where? GOG. That's where. I bought S.T.A.L.K.E.R Clear Sky. Same thing applied, except I didn't feel guilty. Not only that, but the game worked great. Clear Sky is known not to be a good port but I got 60FPS+ 150% of the time. So why would I pay money for something that gives less of an experience. Something that doesn't work. Something I have to tackle to the ground, grab by its throat and shove it in line, just to play. Then have it attack me repeatedly as I try to play. I would happily buy Watch Dogs off GOG because I'm guaranteed it will: - Be paying the same amount as everyone else - Have a world wide version of the game, not region locked - Work - Work well - Be a good port - Have great customer support if something does go wrong So what is the point of this??? Well, I think GabeN and GOG actually have the right idea. If you offer a service that is guaranteed to work, equal, cheap, DRM free and easily accessible with a small amount of quality control, you will sell more copies, have less pirates and have a bigger fanbase. Unfortunately GabeN's store doesn't offer all this. Then Ubisoft is wondering why people are pirating there games, and then bring out this shit??? Your game is going to get cracked one way or another, simple as that. So why have 10 layers of DRM to prevent the inevitable??? WHY??? Game devs constantly ridicule DRM free service, but it would actually, I think, reduce the amount of pirates and provide a GAIN in sales, rather than a drop. If I can get a game that is just as easily accessibly as a pirated copy, 100% will work no coin miners attached, morally right, I think 90% of people will choose said option. Anyway, enough of my thoughts, does anyone else think this would actually work, or am I slowly going insane and they should actually just layer up the DRM?
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Post at /. Source for image. Great. Hmm, I wonder if there will be a browser coming out in the near future (or may be already out) that won't have this implemented in some shape or form, but also works with most websites. We'll see. I personally don't like it. We just keep going over it, but DRM is a losing proposition for both parties. How many times are they gonna try crap like this? It doesn't stop pirates. It never really does. It only makes their process of getting content slightly more annoying. I think this is a sign of things to come: Open Source Browsers. Are there any? I mean, I know some are technically that way with extensions, but still. ... I already have a name for it: Google Ultron Interesting comments on Slashdot: What do you guys think of this idea of DRM in the webspace? -
Article at Variety. ... Do these people even understand how technology works? Or what "Resolution" even is? Seriously. This is some backwards thinking. It's like listening to a 4 year old try and tell you what is the way that things should be done. They're trying to do it in a somewhat logical way, but they lack so much information and understanding that they sound ... stupid. Maybe that's because the Movie industry does thing in fairly stupid ways? Maybe it's because they are too traditional and aren't modernizing to changing technology? And people ask why pirates exist? Because this industry is lead by people like this. Who understand nothing about how their money makers are made. This is about the only good thing I found that he said. It's mostly true. You should do what you love, but sometimes you need to relegate what you love to a hobby rather than focus on it as a profession because not everyone can be good at what they love. You get the idea. What do you guys think? Everything that's been going all lately has me fairly frustrated. People have always said the leaders were out of touch with what they lead, and honestly, I'm only beginning to realize how true that is. Either they are out of touch, or malicious in their intent (i.e. paid off). Either way, they need to be replaced in my opinion.
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Well, this is interesting... it appears Keurig is unhappy allowing unlicensed or refillable pods to be used with it's coffee machines, and is going to do something about it. http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140227/06521826371/keurig-will-use-drm-new-coffee-maker-to-lock-out-refill-market.shtml I have one, and I do use a refillable pod with locally roasted coffee. I have a french press, but that can be time consuming, and I usually end up wasting some. I'm assuming it will be some sort of RFID tag that allows use? I didn't read the attached document. I guess Keurig machines aren't all that techy, however... it does raise (for me) an interesting point about how DRM (or in this case, CRM? Coffee Rights Management?) can and will be applied to everyday things, not just digital files... when will companies see that this doesn't benefit them or their customers? What are some other possibilities of household or business Items that could be "DRM'd"?
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Do you think this is rumors? And do you hope it is. (Video from ReviewTechUSA)
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So, I've just brought a few games on the steam summer sale and it got me thinking about a few things. 1. Do steam games support mods, (I brought Fallout 3 and Fallout: NV) If so, would it be more advisable to buy the physical game? 2. Do physical, non-steam games show up in one's steam library? 3. Is the DRM on steam particularly annoying/intrusive (enough to buy a physical game)
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Just wanted to post this information on what's happening with the Xbox One to the forum and share what some people want to happen, personally I think it's crazy! What do you guys think? You can find the petition here - http://www.change.org/petitions/microsoft-give-us-back-the-xbox-one-we-were-promised-at-e3-2
