Hi, guys, this week Jay and I chat about the sales of Frayed Knights and the apparent effect that massive piracy has had on their rapid decline. While Jay acknowledges that DRM has its problems--especially when it makes a pirated product superior to a legal one--it's hard to deny that some kind of protection is essential to maximize sales. Watch the video and let us know YOUR opinion on DRM.

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Not quite a Humble Bundle, but still pretty neat for PC gaming fans, the 5 for $5 Bundle has no DRM and all of the proceeds go directly to the developers. Each of the five games is a very nifty looking genre mashup of some sort and includes Delve Deeper, Spring Up Harmony, Mactabilis, Steel Storm: Burning Retribution, and Digitanks. Check out the video below, and be sure to visit the Website to purchase:

While checking out one of Amazon's amazing deals, PaintShop Pro X3 Limited Edition for just $25, I couldn't help but be distracted by a firestorm of negative comments related to some rather harsh sounding Digital Rights Management (DRM). In fact, the comments have been so harsh and there have been so many one star "reviews" because of it, Corel themselves commented (an opportunity I've not seen Amazon provide before, but it appears to be an option now), which, by most accounts, appears to be little more than corporate doublespeak and certainly didn't calm the firestorm. Let's hear your thoughts! For your convenience, I've reproduced one of the user reviews and Corel's response below:

After years of struggle between those that would create software and those that would steal it, Capcom has finally found the perfect, DRM-free way to prevent people from stealing the PC version of Super Street Fighter IV.

They're just not going to release it.

Armchair Arcade is proud to present its first official episode of Armchair Arcade Radio! This episode, hosted by Matt Barton, features material from each member of AA's staff: Bill Loguidice, Mark Vergeer, Christina Loguidice, and Chris Kennedy. Enjoy the episode and don't forget to tell all your retro computing and gaming friends! Stay tuned to Armchair Arcade for future episodes.

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It seems that DRM is finally going to be history in the near future as even an official spokesperson (Jonathan Lamy) for the RIAA acknowledges that there is no future in DRM.

For a long time the record-labels thought DRM to be the optimal antidote against piracy, but consumers were less enthusiastic. Because of continued consumer protests many online-music-distribution services - including Apple iTunes/iStore - decided to sell DRM-free music. Apple even allows people to convert DRM music to non-DRM music.

Of course it was not due to outspoken consumers that the music stores decided to switch their policy - it simply was because of DRM-free music outselling DRM-enabled-music.

So why don't we - consumers - do the same to other DRM crippled goods? Just stop buying rootkit copyright protected videogames and especially e-books and go for the DRM-free solution ;-)

Source: Google
http://torrentfreak.com/drm-is-dead-riaa-says-090719/

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The US copyright laws protect user generated content websites like Youtube and Veoh from lawsuits with the so called 'Safe Harbor clause'.