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jobs.gamasutra.com - 5/15/2009

Lead Programmer for Ubisoft

— jobs.gamasutra.com — About Ubisoft: Ubisoft is a leading producer, publisher and distributor of interactive entertainment products worldwide and has... grown considerably through a strong and diversified line-up of products and partnerships. Ubisoft has teams in 28 countries ... (more) Lead Programmer for Ubisoft

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bruceongames.com - 5/12/2009

DRM hits resale more than piracy?

— bruceongames.com — In this article 2D Boy co-founder Ron Carmel thinks that PC DRM doesn’t do much to stop... piracy and that the publishers use it more to stop the trade in secondhand games. Which, as I have pointed out before, is pretty much the same as piracy from a publisher’s perspective . The ... (more) DRM hits resale more than piracy?

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PC game developers foretell the death of DRM
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