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Audacious is a free and open-source audio player software with a focus on low resource use, high audio quality, and support for a wide range of audio formats. [6] It is designed primarily for use on POSIX-compatible Unix-like operating systems, with limited support for Microsoft Windows. [7]
[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 ...
Copy protection for computer software, especially for games, has been a long cat-and-mouse struggle between publishers and crackers.These were (and are) programmers who defeated copy protection on software as a hobby, add their alias to the title screen, and then distribute the "cracked" product to the network of warez BBSes or Internet sites that specialized in distributing unauthorized ...
The Electronic Frontier Foundation expressed concern that free and open source software projects found to be aiding online piracy could experience serious problems under SOPA. [75] Of special concern was the web browser Firefox , [ 40 ] which has an optional extension, MAFIAAFire Redirector, that redirects users to a new location for domains ...
Roblox is an online game platform and game creation system built around user-generated content and games, [1] [2] officially referred to as "experiences". [3] Games can be created by any user through the platforms game engine, Roblox Studio, [4] and then shared to and played by other players. [1]
Software crackers usually did not benefit materially from their actions and their motivation was the challenge itself of removing the protection. [2] Some low skilled hobbyists would take already cracked software and edit various unencrypted strings of text in it to change messages a game would tell a game player, often something considered vulgar.
Windows Media DRM, reads instructions from media files in a rights management language that states what the user may do with the media. [36] Later versions of Windows Media DRM implemented music subscription services that make downloaded files unplayable after subscriptions are cancelled, along with the ability for a regional lockout. [37]
Released as free software in 2004 BSD-3-Clause (since OpenMPT 1.17.02.53) / GPL-2.0-or-later, partly public domain: SoundTracker: Yes No Yes No Fast Tracker clone GPL-2.0-or-later: SunVox: Alexander Zolotov Yes Yes Yes Yes Also runs on Windows CE. Proprietary (Music Creation Studio) BSD-3-Clause (Engine) Noise Station: Mark Sheeky No No No Yes ...