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Stardock's DRM Plans
Blue's News — Edge Online has word on plans to create a new Digital Rights Management solution from Stardock, a developer/publisher vocally opposed to DRM in the past . While Stardock prez Brad Wardell maintains they do not plan on adding DRM to their own games, other publishers have challenged them to help make DRM more acceptable to consumers: "So the publishers are telling us, 'Put your money where your mouth is. Why don't you guys develop something that you think is suitable that would protect our IP, but would be more acceptable to users?' We're investigating what would make ...

Stardock to create copyright security solution
Big Download Blog — ... Earlier this month, game publisher Stardock released its first annual Customer Report where, among many other things, it gave it's thoughts on DRM for games and what was good and bad about them. Now Edge Online reports that Stardock is creating its own ...

Stardock Building non-DRM IP Security for PC Games
GamePolitics News — Consumer-friendly PC publisher Stardock is working on a non-intrusive copyright protection scheme for PC games, according to Edge Online. Citing an interview with CEO Brad Wardell, EO reports that Stardock is developing the solution for other publishers. GamePolitics readers will recall that Wardell and Gas Powered Games head Chris Taylor released the controversial Gamers Bill of Rights during PAX 2008. It seems that major PC game publishers were unwilling to sign onto the Bill of Rights, however. ...