{"id":404296,"date":"2010-03-08T09:12:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-08T14:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20100308\/0138388459.shtml"},"modified":"2010-03-08T09:12:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-08T14:12:00","slug":"ubisofts-you-must-be-connected-to-this-server-annoying-drm-servers-go-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/404296","title":{"rendered":"Ubisoft&#8217;s &#8216;You Must Be Connected To This Server&#8217; Annoying DRM Servers Go Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes you have to wonder if folks like Ubisoft, who keep insisting that it needs to use DRM, are just messing with everyone.  As you certainly know, Ubisoft decided to go with some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/articles\/20100127\/2100117954.shtml\">incredibly annoying DRM<\/a> for some new games, requiring you to be online <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/articles\/20100218\/1514238229.shtml\">at all times<\/a>, even for single-player games.  So, what happens?  The servers that you must be connected to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joystiq.com\/2010\/03\/07\/ubisoft-drm-authentification-server-is-down-assassins-creed-2\/\" >crashed, making those games completely unplayable<\/a> for many, while creating lengthy login delays for others.  That basically makes the game useless for many.  Well, unless you downloaded the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/articles\/20100304\/1302148421.shtml\">cracked version<\/a>.  Once again, DRM is shown to harm buyers, but do nothing to stop unauthorized use.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20100308\/0138388459.shtml\">Permalink<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20100308\/0138388459.shtml#comments\">Comments<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/article.php?sid=20100308\/0138388459&#038;op=sharethis\">Email This Story<\/a><br \/>\n <br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=c597cba1dcd8205cd1b13cdf62b2e85b&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 0;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=c597cba1dcd8205cd1b13cdf62b2e85b&#038;p=1\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" style=\"display:none\" src=\"http:\/\/a.rfihub.com\/eus.gif?eui=2225\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.techdirt.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?a=8MvyNGM5bt4:sizuaNLK0JE:D7DqB2pKExk\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?i=8MvyNGM5bt4:sizuaNLK0JE:D7DqB2pKExk\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.techdirt.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?a=8MvyNGM5bt4:sizuaNLK0JE:c-S6u7MTCTE\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?d=c-S6u7MTCTE\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/techdirt\/feed\/~4\/8MvyNGM5bt4\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes you have to wonder if folks like Ubisoft, who keep insisting that it needs to use DRM, are just messing with everyone. As you certainly know, Ubisoft decided to go with some incredibly annoying DRM for some new games, requiring you to be online at all times, even for single-player games. So, what happens? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-404296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=404296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}