http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3177087
It was revealed on November 25th that the popular game, Mass Effect 2 will come to PC with barely any Digital Rights Management (DRM) at all. According to the article from 1up.com (which focuses more on the PC system requirements than this breaking news for the way digital rights for video games will be handled, but what can you expect from an online gaming magazine) Mass Effect 2 will continue in a recent trend of relaxed DRM, relaying the statement from Bioware community director Chris Priestly
"The boxed/retail PC version of Mass Effect 2 will use only a basic disk check and it will not require online authentication. This is the same method as Dragon Age: Origins. Digital versions will use the retailer's protection system."
The first new media company to begin recognizing DRM as a failed experiment and cutting back on it was Apple, but it seems that many other media producers are following this pattern. It seems that the question soon will be less "How much DRM?" and more "What will replace DRM to protect digital goods?"
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