Valve hosting Source engine mods beginning next week
Valve announced that starting next week, Steam will begin hosting certain user-created mods of Source engine titles such as Half-Life 2 and Team Fortress 2.
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Archive for September, 2008
Apple’s App Store schizophrenia driving developers crazy
Apple has final say over what apps can or can’t be sold via its App Store. A number of developers tell Ars that the company’s recent schizophrenia about which apps make it through and its extending the NDA to cover app rejection letters are alienating those who keep the App Store populated.
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Legal Bullying Continues for Icelandic BitTorrent Tracker
It has been almost a year since a coalition of anti-piracy organizations forced Torrent.is, the largest BitTorrent site in Iceland, to go offline. In the months that followed, the BitTorrent site has won in court more than once, but it has not returned yet, as the anti-piracy groups continue to come up with new claims.
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Stop the MPAA and RIAA shadow government
The entertainment industry buys off senators and in return they get gifts like the “Enforcement of Intellectual Property Act”. Though the bill was recently revised to remove some offensive provisions, it is still unacceptable. Join DefectiveByDesign today in calling your senators to throw light on this shadow government.
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RIAA’s Week of Hell
It’s been a bad week for the RIAA. First their headline campaign victory over Jammie Thomas was thrown out, and then the government said it ’strongly opposes’ a bill lobbied for by the entertainment industries.
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RIAA Ruling: Good News or Bad?
The decision this week by a federal judge in Minnesota to order a new trial in the recording industry’s case against Jammie Thomas was seen by many as a victory for users of peer-to-peer networks. But was it? Thomas remains the only defendant sued by the Recording Industry Association of America to take her case to trial, resulting in a jury verdic
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Hole in Adobe software allows free movie downloads
A security hole in Adobe Systems Inc software, used to distribute movies and TV shows over the Internet, is giving users free access to record and copy from Amazon.com Inc’s video streaming service.
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WalMart shutting down DRM server
Did you buy DRM music from WalMart instead of downloading MP3s for free from the P2P networks? Well, they’re repaying your honesty by taking away your music.
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EA skirts first-sale doctrine with limits on resale of Spore
EA’s much-reviled Spore DRM isn’t just to stop pirates; it also limits used copies of the game. We explore the EULA to see if this is infringing on your rights as a consumer.
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Grand Theft Auto IV Could Save Games for Windows
The PC — once the gold standard for videogaming enthusiasts — has fallen from grace. As each successive console generation provides gamers with options that are more affordable and (most importantly) provide a simpler, pick-up-and-play experience, game developers are encountering fewer reasons to support the beleaguered PC platform.
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Interview: Good Old Games and the “idiocy” of DRM
The DRM debate has been around for quite some time now, and as a marketable idea, its stock has gone down dramatically in recent years. Bands, movie makers, and indie game developers are all experimenting with content distributed without DRM, and knowledgeable consumers are beginning to make a stand against the overly-restrictive nature.
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