Thursday, December 3, 2009

Bloodrayne 2

http://www.gamedaily.com/games/bloodrayne-2/pc/game-features/gogcom-adds-bloodrayne-2-to-drm-free-game-line-up/

It seems that the latest trend in video games is to be three letters short: no D, R, or M. Digital Rights Management has long been the standard of keeping goods that would appear to the public in a digital format, such as music, movies, e-books and video games, to the user who purchased it and only that user. While some forms of DRM have been stricter than others, ranging from a gentle suggestion that you kindly not share your iTunes downloaded music with all of your friends, to a very strict and nearly unhackable code that ads a digital watermark to music. PC games have been relying on DRM to keep them from being pirated at an even faster rate, but this has been slowly going the way of the flighless dodo bird.

More and more new media sources are recognizing DRM as obsolete, and an inefficient way of keeping users from sharing media over the internet. This is especially pertinant for PC games, which have a fanbase that dabbles in destroying anti-piracy measures for fun.

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