The Common Encryption Scheme (CENC) is a form of DRM that is used by video-streaming giants to ensure movies and TV shows streamed to people's devices cannot be, for instance, saved to disk in a ...

Make different DRM schemes play nice with each other: if consumers could play the episodes of Lost they purchased on iTunes on their PSP, they would buy more TV shows.

I wanted to solicit opinions on the following idea designed to allow people to migrate from one DRM scheme to another.The idea hinges on the idea that DRMed files can be easily verified as ...

A pointless DRM scheme that will be bypassed within six months, once again doing nothing but injuring legitimate users. There are non-DRM reasons for using a service-based model for applications ...

Game developers and publishers have been using the Denuvo digital rights management (DRM) scheme to protect their games for several years, often to the chagrin of PC gamers. The reason Denuvo has ...

I’m about done with this topic, but we’ve got a few updates from the hivemind informing us that a) the Sony DRM scheme phones home/is intrusive and b) Sony doesn’t care because nobody knows ...

Wild Hearts has been confirmed to have EA's own DRM, which also means online connection to EA's servers and activation is required.

DRM is all the rage with publishers these days. Here are the systems that came before. Explosionware did damage to your system if your software was illegitimate. The in-program literature warned ...

Rather, the new Ubisoft DRM scheme requires users to be connected to their Ubi.com accounts to play. Unlike Valve’s Steam, the Ubisoft system won’t include an offline mode.

But if the reader’s idea for DRM warning labels were to take hold, many of the vendors who might be considering such schemes would probably think twice.