{"id":2828,"date":"2009-04-01T12:00:23","date_gmt":"2009-04-01T16:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=2828"},"modified":"2009-04-01T09:59:10","modified_gmt":"2009-04-01T13:59:10","slug":"drm-in-the-mirrorverse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=2828","title":{"rendered":"DRM in the Mirrorverse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2009\/03\/31\/electronic-arts-rele.html\">EA is issuing a revoke tool<\/a> for their DRM infected games, and <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/technology\/7972677.stm\">swearing off online activation in the future<\/a>.  In the meantime, a system of online activation is being introduced by&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.impulsedriven.com\/news\/1214_Stardock_throws_GOO_on_DRM\">Stardock<\/a>?!?!<\/p>\n<p>This is like finding out they&#8217;re going to start charging for Ubuntu, and Microsoft is going open source.  This is not an April fool&#8217;s joke, although today seems like an appropriate time to post news like this.  <\/p>\n<p>Topic for discussion: HOLY CRAP WHAT IN THE NAME OF SPOCK&#8217;S BEARD IS GOING ON, I MEAN REALLY?!?!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, EA is issuing a revoke tool for their DRM infected games, and swearing off online activation in the future. In the meantime, a system of online activation is being introduced by&#8230; Stardock?!?! This is like finding out they&#8217;re going to start charging for Ubuntu, and Microsoft is going open source. This is not an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[120],"tags":[30,83,31],"class_list":["post-2828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-videogames","tag-drm","tag-ea","tag-stardock"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2828\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}