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New console admits to “always on” power requirement
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Digital Rights Management or DRM for short are access control technologies that limit the usage of digital content and devices.2). Now, DRM is varied field of technologies, but I am mostly concerned with the license verification of video games. This involves the use of a connection to a central server to verify the legiticamy of the verification and the installation files. The best known come in different flavors and go as such, in increasing aggressiveness:
Note that a game may pick and choose freely and create hybrids between these.
(Include single point of failure wikipedia)