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--- digital_rights_management [2024/01/31 23:16] – ultracomfy
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-<fs xx-large>Digital Rights Management</fs> or DRM for short are, ehem, "access control technologies that limit the usage of digital content and devices ". Thank you, [[Wikipedia]]. Now, DRM is varied field of technologies, but I am mostly concerned with the license verification of [[Video Game|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:
+~~Title:Digital Rights Management~~
+<WRAP box>
+<WRAP centeralign group>
+<WRAP 5% rightalign column>
+<fs xx-large>//**"**//</fs>
+</WRAP>
+<WRAP 80% column>
+New console admits to "always on" power requirement
+</WRAP>
+<WRAP 5% leftalign column>
+<fs xx-large>//**"**//</fs>
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+</WRAP>
+<WRAP centeralign>~[[Plague Inc.]]((Apparently this is //actually// meant to be a reference to XBox-One's always on power mode, I personally always understood this as meant to be the logical extreme of always online DRM. Yknow, just because the console has an always on //mode// doesn't mean it's //required// to, a condition that could be met if this was talking about DRM.))</WRAP>
+</WRAP>
+<fs xx-large>Digital Rights Management</fs> or DRM for short are access control technologies that limit the usage of digital content and devices.(([[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DRM|Disambiguation page for DRM on Wikipedia]])). Now, DRM is varied field of technologies, but I am mostly concerned with the license verification of [[Video Game|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:
   * [[Digital Rights Management#None|None]]
   * [[Digital Rights Management#On Installation|On installation]]
+  * [[Digital Rights Management#Periodic|Periodic]]
   * [[Digital Rights Management#On Execution|On execution]]
   * [[Digital Rights Management#Always|Always]] ("Always on DRM")
+Note that a game may pick and choose freely and create hybrids between these.
 ====== None ======
-====== On Installation =====
+====== On Installation ======
-====== On Execution =====
+====== Periodic ======
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+====== On Execution ======
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 ====== Always ======
 ==== Always on DRM redirects here. ====
+(Include single point of failure wikipedia)