{"id":3169,"date":"2012-06-16T12:24:33","date_gmt":"2012-06-16T16:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=3169"},"modified":"2012-06-16T12:24:33","modified_gmt":"2012-06-16T16:24:33","slug":"the-end-of-drm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=3169","title":{"rendered":"The end of DRM?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just as Canada is about to enact its most Draconian copyright law yet (yes, simply watching a foreign DVD using region-free software will make you a criminal) there are signs that the software gaming industry is finally seeing the light. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/erikkain\/2012\/03\/08\/witcher-2-developer-we-will-never-use-any-drm-anymore\/\">Reportedly<\/a> Marcin Iwinski, one of the founders of CD Projekt, known for their best selling <em>Witcher<\/em> game franchise, declared that &#8220;we will never use any DRM anymore&#8221;. The reason? <em>Witcher 2<\/em> was cracked within two hours of its release. Perhaps that in itself is not particularly surprising, but consider this: this game was simultaneously released DRM-free on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gog.com\/\">GOG.COM<\/a>. But it was the DRM retail version that was cracked in two hours! &#8220;What really surprised me is that the pirates didn&#8217;t use the GOG version, which was not protected. They took the SecuROM retail version, cracked it,&#8221; said Iwinski.<\/p>\n<p>The reality is that DRM only inconveniences legitimate law-abiding customers. You pay for the game, you get a copy crippled with a software component that might break your computer. You download the cracked version from a &#8220;warez&#8221; site, you get a DRM-free copy. What, pray tell, is the VALUE a legitimate customer gets in exchange for paying good money?<\/p>\n<p>Finally, it seems that at least some in the gaming industry began to ask this very question. Perhaps one day, we may even be able to convince dinosaur politicians&#8230;<\/p>\n<fb:like href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=3169' send='true' layout='standard' show_faces='true' width='450' height='65' action='like' colorscheme='light' font='lucida grande'><\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just as Canada is about to enact its most Draconian copyright law yet (yes, simply watching a foreign DVD using region-free software will make you a criminal) there are signs that the software gaming industry is finally seeing the light. Reportedly Marcin Iwinski, one of the founders of CD Projekt, known for their best selling <a href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=3169' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers","category-intellectual-property","category-11-id","category-43-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3169"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3175,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3169\/revisions\/3175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}