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Comment Re:Grey Goo (Score 1) 232

Ironically, their method sounds a bit like safedisc. You know...encrypt the executable file? But how does it work? When someone changes their email address, does that change follow with this? I'm guessing potentially not.

It's quite simple, you deauthenticate the file and then authenticate it again with your new email address.

Comment GOO allows you to sell the game again (Score 1) 232

Thats the major point here that those other systems don't have:

"It opens the door to gamers being able to resell their games because users can voluntarily disable their game access and transfer their license ownership to another user."

Of course, this could also mean that publisher are less interested in using it as the other systems actively prevent a second hand market (which in their eyes means more copies sold).
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The Canadian superhero Captain Copyright has finally expired, not due to pirates, but because "the current climate around copyright issues will not allow a project like this one to be successful." The cartoon was intended to provide an education in copyright law for children, but it became a focus for criticism when even the Canadian Library Association condemned it for lacking of balance in how it ignored issues like Fair Dealing (Canada's v

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