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Is anyone surprised that the copy protection announced for Mass Effect and Spore is being reconsidered? In short, publishers Bioware and EA, respectively, initially decided to include a copy protection mechanism that would cause the aforementioned games to “phone home” every ten days to ensure that the game played was legitimately purchased. The ten-day authentication [...]

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It’s an alchemical breakthrough: the transmutation of optical media to an older, analog format. According to Boing Boing, Aleks Kolkowski is using a vintage record cutter to cut grooves into CDs/DVDs such that they can be played on a record player. This physical mutilation obviously destroys the ability to keep playing the old CDs/DVDs in [...]

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Some time back, we stopped paying attention to Bones Wiley’s web site, because he was outta town and knew he wouldn’t be updating it anytime soon. As it happens, his web site broke during that time, and only a few days ago did we manage to pick the old database and put Wiley’s old content [...]

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It was good news that Guitar Hero 3 (GH3) was shipping for both Windows and OS X, and this fact prompted me to pick up a copy of the OS X version as a Christmas gift to Bones Wiley, who’s stuck in Europe without an Internet connection. I thought that GH3 would keep him busy [...]

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After much time believing that the Guitar Hero franchise was not for him, my pal Maxator recently folded and picked up Guitar Hero III. This event was one in a handful of links that lead him to write about his love of Rock Band, which is a logical step in the progression of playing rhythm-matching [...]

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