Enlarge / The virtual sun rises on another day that GT7 ‘s servers remain offline. A longer-than-expected server outage has meant that Gran Turismo 7 owners haven’t been able to access large portions of the single-player game for more than a day. The scheduled server maintenance, timed around the release of the version 1 . […]
Enlarge (credit: Kiyoshi Ota/Bloomberg) For years, printers have been encumbered with digital rights management systems that prevent users from buying third-party ink and toner cartridges. Printer companies have claimed that their chip-enabled cartridges can “enhance the quality and performance” of their equipment, provide the “best consumer experience,” and “protect [the printers] from counterfeit and third-party ink […]
Enlarge / For the rest of 2021, Bandcamp Friday is back on the first Friday of every month (including today). That’s one of many reasons why I recommend checking out Bandcamp as a solid digital music storefront. (credit: Bandcamp) The digital music universe has come a long way since the Napster era, and these days, […]
Enlarge / The Humankind hand slams down on Denuvo in this week’s latest story of DRM woe. (credit: Aurich Lawson ) For years, PC gamers have wondered out loud whether antipiracy solutions like Denuvo get in the way of game performance, since the solutions tend to operate in the background in search of piracy-related flags. […]
Resident Evil 8: Village‘s retail PC version, as accessed from Steam, suffers from sporadic midcombat stutters, as the top-left “performance graph” indicates. This week’s cracked version has, at least in one independently verified testing scenario, solved this issue. [credit: Capcom ] Over the weekend, the PC version of May 2021’s Resident Evil 8: Village was apparently […]
Enlarge / The federal courthouse in Marshall, Texas. (credit: Photo by Mario Villafuerte/Bloomberg via Getty Images) A jury in the plaintiff-friendly Eastern District of Texas has ordered Apple to pay $308.5 million to a small, privately held company for infringing a patent related to digital rights management. An expert for Personalized Media Communications, the plaintiff, […]
Expand / Sometimes it sounds like Widevine is that the DNS of Digital Rights Management. “It can not be Widevine!” It had been Widevine. It is consistently Widevine… (charge: Jim Salter) Back in August, HBO bankrupt its clients’ access to this HBO Max streaming agency by simply turning up the configurations on its Widevine DRM […]