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Further proof that DRM sucks

3/8/2010

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(Posted by: Alex)
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Ubisoft's Digital Rights Management server went down over the weekend, preventing some users from playing Assassins Creed II on the PC. For those of you who don't know what DRM is, it's any method used by a media publisher to ensure that their product isn't used illegally. In this case, it involves the game "phoning home" to the server at startup in order to confirm its own legitimacy. This means that users without a good internet connection cannot play the game at all, which would really suck if you bought the game.  Ubisoft has apologized, and says that the outage only effected a small percentage of the users. It should be noted that cracked and pirated copies functioned just fine, due to a lack of DRM. Just saying.

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