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Ubisoft Testing PC Prince of Persia Without DRM
Ars Technica reports that the upcoming PC version of Ubisoft's Prince of Persia will not feature any sort of copy protection. (Not including Steam downloads, of course.) After the backlash in recent months over the DRM in games like Spore and GTA IV, Ubisoft is giving gamers the chance to demonstrate that DRM actually increases piracy. One of Ubisoft's community reps had this to say about their decision: "You`re right when you say that when people want to pirate the game they will but DRM is there to make it as difficult as possible for pirates to make copies of our games. A lot of people complain that DRM is what forces people to pirate games but as PoP PC has no DRM we`ll see how truthful people actually are. Not very, I imagine. Console piracy is something else entirely and I`m sure we`ll see more steps in future to try to combat that."
I recommend the All Windows DVD SP2. I got it a few month back on the pirate bay, and now I have every version of Windows in virtual machines (I refuse to run windows directly on my hardware). Put it on a shared partition so both Linux and Leopard (hackintosh) can read it, and you're in VM heaven :).
Kind of ironic this is being said in this article's discussion, but I hope Ubisoft's stance stops people from blatantly pirating it so others can follow suit. One of the reasons I got those Windows DVDs from the pirate bay is mainly because of the older (hard to find) versions, e.g. pre-2k so I wasn't really pirating it, unless Microsoft wants to pursue me for pirating abandonware (which will become a future discussion topic as DRM software ages).