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On Windows 10 and Windows 11, the activation process can also generate a "digital entitlement", which allows the operating system's hardware and license status to be saved to the activation servers, so that the operating system's license can automatically be restored after a clean installation without the need to enter a product key.
In August 2014 the source code for the game's X-Ray Engine 1.5.10 became available on GitHub under a non-open-source license. [223] The successor's engine, X-ray 1.6.02, became available too. [ 224 ] [ 225 ] As of October 2019 the xray-16 engine community fork, "OpenXRay", achieved compiling state and support for the two games Call of Pripyat ...
[9] [10] Sometimes, games require online authentication or have always-on DRM. [1] A notable incident concerning always-on DRM took place in 2021, surrounding the Windows release of Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time. Without a constant internet connection, the game's DRM disallows any play at all, even in single-player, which naturally drew ...
Denuvo Anti-Tamper is an anti-tamper and digital rights management (DRM) system developed by the Austrian company Denuvo Software Solutions GmbH. The company was formed from a management buyout of DigitalWorks, the developer of SecuROM, and began developing the software in 2014.
Windows Media DRM or WMDRM, is a digital rights management service for the Windows Media platform. It is designed to provide delivery of audio or video content over an IP network to a PC or other playback device in such a way that the distributor can control how that content is used.
While all the other DD services allow various forms of DRM (or even have them embedded) gog.com has a strict non-DRM policy. [20] Desura was launched in 2010. The service was notable for having a strong support of the modding community and also has an open source client, called Desurium . [ 21 ]
Despite an unsuccessful crowdfunding campaign in 2014, [312] Lemma was released commercially by the developer DRM-free and also on Steam. The source code is openly developed and available on GitHub under a MIT license. [313] [314] Little Big Adventure and Little Big Adventure 2: 1994/1997 2021 Action-adventure: GPL-2.0-only
PlayReady competes with other proprietary DRM schemes and even more with DRM-free software, most notably Apple's FairPlay introduced in iTunes and QuickTime. There are several other DRM schemes that are competing to become the dominant DRM technology (e.g. Widevine).