wraggster
August 19th, 2015, 20:03
http://o.aolcdn.com/hss/storage/midas/570a5c862993fca4db57a4e9770bebd2/202488492/grand-theft-auto-iii-1200.jpg (http://www.engadget.com/2015/08/17/windows-10-rejects-old-game-drm/)
Do you recall the bad old days of PC games in the mid-2000s, when titles were loaded with copy protection that was not only a hassle (http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/07/spore-mass-effect-to-require-online-validation-every-10-days/), but horribly insecure? Well, Microsoft does -- and that could be a problem if you're trying to run some of those vintage games on Windows 10 (http://www.engadget.com/2015/07/28/windows-10-review/). The company notes (http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2015/08/17/windows-10-safedisc-securom-drm/) that games which depend on some versions of SafeDisc and Securom DRM (digital rights management) aren't allowed to run on Windows 10 at all. That could mean that your dusty copy of Grand Theft Auto III, Battlefield 1942 or The Sims won't load. As Microsoft's Boris Schneider-Johne says, their DRM intrudes so deeply into your system that they introduce a "possible loophole for computer viruses." Sure enough, at least one of the concerns about burdensome copy protection proved true -- it was more of a nuisance to honest gamers than to pirates.
http://www.engadget.com/2015/08/17/windows-10-rejects-old-game-drm/
Do you recall the bad old days of PC games in the mid-2000s, when titles were loaded with copy protection that was not only a hassle (http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/07/spore-mass-effect-to-require-online-validation-every-10-days/), but horribly insecure? Well, Microsoft does -- and that could be a problem if you're trying to run some of those vintage games on Windows 10 (http://www.engadget.com/2015/07/28/windows-10-review/). The company notes (http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2015/08/17/windows-10-safedisc-securom-drm/) that games which depend on some versions of SafeDisc and Securom DRM (digital rights management) aren't allowed to run on Windows 10 at all. That could mean that your dusty copy of Grand Theft Auto III, Battlefield 1942 or The Sims won't load. As Microsoft's Boris Schneider-Johne says, their DRM intrudes so deeply into your system that they introduce a "possible loophole for computer viruses." Sure enough, at least one of the concerns about burdensome copy protection proved true -- it was more of a nuisance to honest gamers than to pirates.
http://www.engadget.com/2015/08/17/windows-10-rejects-old-game-drm/