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Ubisoft DRM Causing More Problems
Joe Helfrich writes "Ubisoft's Settlers 7 servers have been causing problems for over a week for users worldwide, and Australian gamers are hardly able to connect at all. 'The problem reportedly strikes after the game has already confirmed an active Internet connection, and prevents the user from playing even the single-player campaign, returning the error "server not available." But they are available, because other people are logged into them and merrily playing away.' Wonder how they're going to describe this one as an attack."
I'd be careful about using Cory Doctorow's image (craphound.com) as a way to support your point. Cory Doctorow is a big proponent of piracy - in the past, he's promoted books that teach people how to pirate, and has sold "I pirate music" t-shirts on his website. Piracy advocates do nothing to reduce creators' desire to use DRM - quite the opposite, they make companies want to use DRM because they're so eager to pirate rather than pay. Doctorow is the enemy of creators; the only way to successfully get rid of DRM is to get more people to pay for their software, not less.
The torrent is out there - LEARN HOW TO FIND THE CRACKFIX.
That isn't released via torrents. Why must you fools assume EVERYTHING is on torrent?
Still waiting on Serviscope_minor to wake up to fucking reality and realize that Jessica Price isn't going to fuck him.