DRM: No You May Not Play Gears of War
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Jan/090
Jan/090
Ah DRM, how you encourage piracy. As of 1/28/09, all legit copies of Gears of War stopped working. The only way to correct this problem was to roll back the system clock to a time before 1/28/09. That’s right, the game’s digital certificate expired. The game was coded to stop working within three years of its release.
Really, Microsoft, are you actually trying to make paying customers pirate your software? Because if you are, I suspect you’re doing a really good job.
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About DRM
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Dec/080
Dec/080
Including how to break it. Another article from Gizmodo today, more than worth a read. If only to learn to break the stuff on principle alone.
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