Looking through posts tagged ‘drm’

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Spore opens anti-DRM flood gates | 8th Sep 2008

It looks as though the highly anticipated science-based video game Spore, from the makers of SimCity and The Sims, is particularly low-ranked on Amazon. Although the game has met with some lackluster reviews, that’s not the reason for the pitiful rating. It’s because of DRM. Electronic Arts decided that Spore should include [...]

The Day The Music Died | 7th May 2008

This is so incredibly frustrating. On one hand, I want to rub people’s faces in it. But on the other, I see a ton of people every day buying songs from iTunes, and they’re in the same boat. They just don’t think it could happen to them, or they don’t care because [...]

DRM | 14th Feb 2008

This comic from xkcd always pops into my head randomly. And now I’ve found this one too. Man I’ve gotta check out Free Culture.

Microsoft to squash third world economies | 18th Jan 2008

In a rather disturbing article, I found out that Microsoft was none too pleased that One Laptop Per Child has been distributing laptops with a free and open source linux operating system installed (RHEL). They can’t have everyone in a third world country growing up using gnu/linux and not Windows. Plus think about [...]

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