(This post is a slightly-edited version of a comment I made on TOC, which has issued a call for a moratorium on the Singapore govenrment’s use of the mandatory death penalty (“MDP”)). The TOC editorial linked above argues that a moratorium would “allow an open and robust discourse… so that a true national consensus on judicial [...]
Many of you know Ubisoft’s new draconian Digital Rights Management (DRM) scheme that ships with PC copies of Assassin’s Creed II and Settlers 7. If you don’t, check this link out. And this link.
The executive summary is this: if you play Assassin’s Creed II on a PC, you must be permanently connected to the internet or the game will stop working and you will lose your progress. For Settlers 7, you’ll “only” have to suffer the game stopping. Latest news indicates that this DRM will ship with the new Splinter Cell: Conviction, too.
Words cannot express how pigheaded this move is. It’s a giant fuck you to customers. It’s an expression of utter contempt for the people who line your pockets with their hard earned cash. It’s Ubisoft saying “Yeah, suck it, suck it and swallow because you have no other choice, bitch!”
The Problem is that DRM Does Not Work
