Peaches Posted February 1, 2009 Report Share Posted February 1, 2009 Gears of War bug not SafeDisc DRM's firstLegitimate owners of the PC version of the popular game were blocked starting Thursday By Eric Lai January 30, 2009 (Computerworld) The antipiracy technology that locked out players of the popular Gears of War game on Thursday was also implicated in a 2007 bug that allowed hackers to take control of Windows PCs. In November 2007, Microsoft Corp. revealed that copies of Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 were being exploited because of a bug in SafeDisc's digital rights management (DRM) technology, which is meant to guard against illegal copying. Legitimate owners of the PC version of Gears of War, a third-person shooter and sci-fi game, were blocked starting Thursday, according to numerous reports. Blocked players would either have to re-install the game or set the date of their PC back to Wednesday, Jan. 28 or earlier. Gears is developed by Epic Games and published by Microsoft Game Studios. The maker of SafeDisc's DRM is San Francisco-based TryMedia Systems Inc. Full story: http://www.computerworld.com/action/articl...p;intsrc=kc_top >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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