Ein Anfang.

Ein Anfang.

via Marco Modano 

Originally shared by Daniel Suarez

New Life for Undead Games

Most games today 'check in' to an online DRM server before launching -- even single player games. This can be irritating when your Internet connection goes down, but it becomes a show stopper when a game publisher shuts down the DRM server for an older game -- essentially taking that game out of your library. You paid for it, but they insist you're done playing that game.

But that's about to change:

"Earlier this year, a Harvard Law School student launched a petition to the US Copyright Office to allow for abandoned online games to become exempt to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. This would mean that games abandoned by publishers with dead DRM servers could legally be cracked and played again. The EFF was trying to make it legal for owners of non-MMO titles to circumvent DRM in order to keep playing the games they own and this week, they succeeded.

Now thanks to the US Copyright Office’s ruling this week, games that have a single-player component that requires online authentication to access can be modified or copied if the publisher has formally shut down the servers for longer than six months."
http://www.kitguru.net/channel/generaltech/matthew-wilson/single-player-games-with-dead-drm-servers-ruled-dmca-exempt/