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Ubisoft's Authentication Servers Go Down 634

Posted by kdawson on Sunday March 07, 2010 @08:23PM from the single-point-of-well-you-know dept.

ZuchinniOne writes "With Ubisoft's fantastically awful new DRM you must be online and logged in to their servers to play the games you buy. Not only was this DRM broken the very first day it was released, but now their authentication servers have failed so absolutely that no-one who legally bought their games can play them. 'At around 8am GMT, people began to complain in the Assassin's Creed 2 forum that they couldn't access the Ubisoft servers and were unable to play their games.' One can only hope that this utter failure will help to stem the tide of bad DRM."

Comment Re:TV? (Score 1) 448

by dougjm on Monday May 21, 2007 @10:23AM (#19208353) Attached to: Windows Media Center Restricts Cable TV

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channel_4/
specifically :-

Though entirely commercially self-funded, it is ultimately publicly owned: Originally a subsidiary of the Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA), the station is now owned and operated by the Channel Four Television Corporation, a public body established in 1990 for this purpose and which came into operation in 1993, following the abolition of the IBA.

But I think - having not read the whole page cause I'm lazy - that they get a bunch of money from the tv license that pays for some of the programing like you mention but they also don't have to pay broadcast fees - or maybe they don't pay broadcast fees and thats their subsidy - its something along tose lines anyway - I just remeber this from a few months ago cause C4 wants more money to deal with the digital switchover.

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