amaprotu - Slashdot User

Comment Re:MS needs to be thinking about the 720 (Score 1) 169

by amaprotu on Friday August 28, 2009 @12:12PM (#29232099) Attached to: Microsoft Drops Xbox 360 Pricing

I'm no sony fanboy, but the simple fact is that the ps3 is still the best bluray player in terms of price and features

Really? The new slim, and reduced price existing PS3s are $300. Newegg (good prices, but I'm sure not the cheapest around) has 7 players for $200 or less (1 under $100!). Another 7 that are under $290.

Of *course* it is cheaper than any console + a bluray player. But the argument that it is the best bluray player for price and features is old and hasn't been true for a while.

Two New Class-Action Suits Against EA Over DRM 336

Posted by Soulskill on Sunday November 09, 2008 @02:02PM from the ea's-chickens-have-come-home-to-roost dept.

In September, we discussed a class-action suit filed against Electronic Arts over the DRM in Spore. Now, two new class-action suits have been filed that target the SecuROM software included in a free trial of the Spore Creature Creator (PDF) and in The Sims 2: Bon Voyage (PDF). If this sort of legal reprisal continues to catch on, EA could be seeing quite a few class-action suits in the future. One of the suits accuses: "The inclusion of undisclosed, secretly installed DRM protection measures with a program that was freely distributed constitutes a major violation of computer owners' absolute right to control what does and what does not get loaded onto their computers, and how their computers shall be used ... [SecuROM] cannot be completely uninstalled. Once installed it becomes a permanent part of the consumer's software portfolio ... EA's EULA for Spore Creature Creator Free Trial Edition makes utterly no mention of any Technical Protection Measures, DRM technology, or SecuROM whatsoever."

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