While many hoped that once George Lucas got his paws off the Star Wars franchise things would get better, it appears that the new owners - Disney - might be headed for similar daft decisions.
EA's DRM has finished off the somewhat chequred career of Electronic Arts CEO John Riccitiello.
Riccitiello's obsession with DRM appears to have killed off the launch of the flagship SimCity game which was supposed to make a huge killing for the outfit.
Electronic Arts says it's close to fixing the problems that made the launch of SimCity such a disaster last week, and is offering a free PC game to anyone affected.
An awards ceremony streamed over the weekend by Ustream abruptly went black because a digital rights management tool used by the company reckoned copyright was being infringed and automatically shut it down.
UbiSoft has rolled out a patch for its uPlay DRM which reportedly left PCs vulnerable and open to attack from malicious code planted by nefarious websites.
Tom Doherty Associates - best known for its Tor science fiction imprint - has announced plans to scrap digital rights management (DRM) in the US and UK.
There was a time when PC gaming was all the rage, with plenty of fanbois more than happy to throw down a cool $3,000+ for a hot new rig to play the latest and greatest FPS.
Apple is reportedly looking into the feasibility of letting users download a song from iTunes as many times as they want after they pay for it, a move that quite honestly should have been around for quite some time now.
