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Sony CEO: We Could Have Beaten Apple

Monday, May 11, 2009

Boxing in customers is rarely a good idea, and Sony CEO Howard Stringer says he’s come around to that reasoning. In an interview with Nikkei Electronics Asia, Stringer spoke of how his company didn’t take open technology very seriously in the past, pointing to the failed Sony Connect music store as an example. The site’s tunes [...]

Sims 3 Goes Back to DRM Basics

Friday, March 27, 2009

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Electronic Arts, architects of possibly the biggest Digital Rights Management disaster in PC gaming, are abandoning their wicked ways and going back to a less intrusive copy protection process. The Sims 3 will use a simple, disc-based authentication system, similar to the one used in The Sims 2. Players won’t have to go online to validate [...]

Ubisoft Goes DRM-Free for Old Games

Thursday, March 26, 2009

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The folks at Good Old Games, or GOG as they like to be called, sent me a beaming press blast today about how they’ve brought megapublisher Ubisoft on board. The Web site’s stock in trade is old video games for download — Duke Nukem, Freespace, MDK, etc. — so now they’ll be getting titles like [...]

Don’t Hold Your Breath for DRM-free iTunes

Monday, December 8, 2008

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The latest rumor-du-jour being served up by AppleInsider cites a French technology website claiming iTunes long love affair with DRM will come to an end tomorrow (Tuesday). Here’s how its put via a translation of the story that’s found here: In French: “Comme toujours avec Apple, nous avançons avec prudence. Toutefois, les signaux sont clairs aujourd’hui. iTunes [...]

25 Arguments for the Elimination of Copy Protection

Monday, October 13, 2008

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Can I begin with a few disclaimers? I believe that people who create things deserve to be rewarded for their efforts. Which means that I think that stealing entertainment and software is wrong. Actually, come to think of it, if there was a form of copy protection that was never a hassle for paying customers [...]

Introducing Technologizer’s T-List

Thursday, July 31, 2008

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New Technologizer feature! Starting this very moment, I’ll round up five items a day, give my take, and refer you to discussion elsewhere. They may be the day’s biggest stories. Or not. List starts after the jump…