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DRM Shuts Down PC Version of Gears of War
carlmenezes writes "It seems that the DRM on the PC version of Gears of War came with a built-in shut-off date; the digital certificate for the game was only good until January 28, 2009. Now, the game fails to work unless you adjust your system's clock. What is Epic's response? 'We're working on it.'"
No one really likes DRM however there is little effort on the Anti-DRM Camp to come up with a solution that fixes the companies problem, of illegal piracy, or sharing a copy with your friends.
Any of the disadvantages of DRM can be considered a trade off for reducing piracy (at least at the level of keeping the honest honest)
I think the goal for anti-DRM Groups is to find a way to fight and reduce piracy. Even if you feel all software should be free you should at least respect the other guys who don't, and work to reduce piracy so you can create an environment where DRM is to expensive to make vs. profit lost in piracy.
Lets be reasonable you don't think the companies that incorporated DRM didn't calculate the trade offs. Oh lets spend an additional 90k for our software. The people doing the money will normally stop them and ask for their reason and calculate the numbers. Companies don't like the expense and hassle of DRM however, they dislike piracy more. If you realize this help fight software piracy with them, then you are in a better position to say lets get rid of it. As we have done such a good job that it is no longer needed.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
DRM does stop piracy sometimes. There's been many cases where people just bought team fortress 2 on steam for the convenience of never having to continuously patch their games to work with the pirate servers.
Most of your post is full of lies that keep getting perpetuated on slashdot.
This problem with gears of war sucks but there working on it so what's the problem exactly?