Stardock's Copyright Security Solution

Iria · Oct 25, 2008, 02:49 AM

On Friday, Stardock CEO Brad Wardell revealed to Edge that his company is developing a non-intrusive copyright security solution for external publishers.
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Source: Edge Online

BlueMak · Oct 25, 2008, 08:02 AM

I like Stardock, but let's face it, drengin.net and totalgaming and now impulse, always had DRM. Yes, you could freely copy/backup the game you downloaded, but it is not like you could do anything with it unless you activated it online through their servers. So basicaly for all the games available through their digital destribution packaging, they may say there is no DRM, but it is just a play with words.
I think, apart from gog, the only major publisher/system of downloaded games that doesn't have something like this is Matrixgames and they doing a great job about it.

Still, good luck to them.

Stop It · Oct 25, 2008, 09:33 AM

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Originally Posted by BlueMak

I like Stardock, but let's face it, drengin.net and totalgaming and now impulse, always had DRM. Yes, you could freely copy/backup the game you downloaded, but it is not like you could do anything with it unless you activated it online through their servers. So basicaly for all the games available through their digital destribution packaging, they may say there is no DRM, but it is just a play with words.
I think, apart from gog, the only major publisher/system of downloaded games that doesn't have something like this is Matrixgames and they doing a great job about it.

Still, good luck to them.

You forgot the biggest DD platform, Steam, which has the most protective DRM ever, yet it is generally regarded as the best gaming platform ever made, scary.

I'm all for "non intrisuive" DRM, but I'd rather see DRM that worked first and foremost, something that it is clearly not at this time.

BlueMak · Oct 25, 2008, 09:47 AM

That's because they all (apart from the two companies I mentioned earlier) assume that you are a thief first, a customer second.

Oct 25, 2008, 02:49 AM	#1
Iria DriverHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 7,275 Rep Power: 89	Stardock's Copyright Security Solution On Friday, Stardock CEO Brad Wardell revealed to Edge that his company is developing a non-intrusive copyright security solution for external publishers. __________ Source: Edge Online

Oct 25, 2008, 08:02 AM	#2
BlueMak HH's Asteroids' Dominator Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Hellas->Macedonia->Thessaloniki Posts: 13,465 Rep Power: 349 System Specs	Re: Stardock's Copyright Security Solution I like Stardock, but let's face it, drengin.net and totalgaming and now impulse, always had DRM. Yes, you could freely copy/backup the game you downloaded, but it is not like you could do anything with it unless you activated it online through their servers. So basicaly for all the games available through their digital destribution packaging, they may say there is no DRM, but it is just a play with words. I think, apart from gog, the only major publisher/system of downloaded games that doesn't have something like this is Matrixgames and they doing a great job about it. Still, good luck to them. __________________ The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others(Bertrand Russell)"You go into Afghanistan, you got guys who slap women around for five years because they didn't wear a veil,You know, guys like that ain't got no manhood left anyway. So it's a hell of a lot of fun to shoot them." - Lt. Gen. James N. Mattis This is slavery, not to speak one's thought. [Euripides-The Phoenician Women (c.411-409 B.C.)] http://www.macedonia.info/FALLACIESANDFACTS.htm *Sic semper tyrannis.*

Oct 25, 2008, 09:47 AM	#4
BlueMak HH's Asteroids' Dominator Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Hellas->Macedonia->Thessaloniki Posts: 13,465 Rep Power: 349 System Specs	Re: Stardock's Copyright Security Solution That's because they all (apart from the two companies I mentioned earlier) assume that you are a thief first, a customer second. __________________ The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others(Bertrand Russell)"You go into Afghanistan, you got guys who slap women around for five years because they didn't wear a veil,You know, guys like that ain't got no manhood left anyway. So it's a hell of a lot of fun to shoot them." - Lt. Gen. James N. Mattis This is slavery, not to speak one's thought. [Euripides-The Phoenician Women (c.411-409 B.C.)] http://www.macedonia.info/FALLACIESANDFACTS.htm *Sic semper tyrannis.*