- Not much more useless than a cracked DRM, and no DRM will last once people are actually interested in breaking it. Games are removing Denuvo, the latest wizard wheeze in games protection, after it was broken in August and again in September. The fun part: Denuvo offers companies a money-back guarantee if the DRM is broken. This may not be a wise move when you’re selling worthless snake oil that directly motivates piracy and, oh yeah, literally defies mathematics.
- Even Nintendo’s put always-online DRM into the latest Super Mario. Just in case you thought you “bought” the game or something.
- You should probably buy your games DRM-free at GOG if they’re available there. Steam is about the least customer-hostile DRM I’ve ever seen, but …
- 4K Netflix is finally available! In Edge on a Windows 10 PC with the very latest Intel CPU, and no other configuration. The Pirate Bay is right where it’s always been.
- The Electronic Frontier Foundation, who you should give money to, are pushing to get DRM labelling applied to all products and services using it. ‘Cos consumers love DRM, right? It’s virtually a selling point![citation needed]
WTF. Why on earth are they restricting the *OS and CPU architecture* you can watch it on? It can’t *just* be performance, can it?
(I don’t use Netflix because it’s not available for Linux-on-ARM, which would leave me with a home cinema I couldn’t watch anything I was paying for on. No thank you. Bluray ripping might be a sodding drag but at least it works.)
@Nix presumably the latest Intel CPU has some whizbang new security features which the latest win10 has drivers for and which are used to keep the owners of the PC from interfering with the path from the Netflix app to the video output (DHCP protected natch).
According to the fine article, because Edge (which is Win10 only) has a DRM plugin the studios found acceptable, and Intel CPU because it does H.265 usably. (Not for the security features – I woulda thought that too, but I’ve seen 0 real-world uses of the Management Engine.) Also because the Pirate Bay is in need of marketing, I guess.