This week, Paul is too busy unpacking in his new home in California, so it’s just Jonah and Jordan, as the news mainly deals with DRM. The Gaming Flashback this week is the Activision racer The Great American Cross-Country Road Race, while this week’s Gaming History doesn’t focus on a video game company or developer, but a fictional character instead, Mario’s favorite mount, Yoshi.
The news this week includes:
- EA forum bans cause game bans
- Research film states piracy’s up 20% in past 5 years
- GOG sez customers hate DRM
- Steam user database cracked
- Uncharted 3 launches with 1.1M sold in first week
All that plus Reader Feedback and the Question of the Week, “What DRM would you tolerate?”
You know, you could send somebody the raw mp3, and have faith they’ll edit it to your liking :D.
The problem is that the raw MP3 is inaccessible.
Oh Jonah, why must you torture me. I need my weekly dose! I’ll let it slide this time Falcon…
it’s just a pc; pop out the HDD, put it in a friend’s system and presto, access to the file 🙂
Unless it’s a laptop, then popping out the HDD is a bit more complicated, then finding either an HDD enclosure or a laptop with a second unused cable … which is not that ‘presto’ 🙁
This week will be canceled. Stay tuned for next week’s.