EA DRM blocks games based on emulator software
Marc Perton writes over on Engadget:
And you thought Sony was the only company with invasive DRM. It turns out that Electronic Arts includes DRM on some of its game CDs that makes the games unplayable if you’re running CD emulation software, such as Fantom CD Emulator or Alcohol 120%. In order to run the games, you need to quit the offending software.
EA’s actions seem designed to make it harder for users to copy the company’s games, but there are plenty of legitimate uses for emulation software, such as allowing a game or other product to run more quickly in an emulated CD drive than it might in your hardware drive, or simply to reduce wear-and-tear on the CD drive. It seems that EA, like Sony, has decided to assume its customers are pirates, and has provided an inept and troublesome way to express that assumption.
posted by Fergie @ 11/15/2005 05:17:00 PM
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