Microsoft has disabled 2 of the old style DRMs, and subsequently the games that use them, on Windows 10. Games that use Securom and Safedisc no longer work on Windows 10 without a patch of some sort ...

In context: SafeDisc was a copy protection designed to hinder or block unauthorized duplication of PC games released on optical disks. The controversial technology was retired in 2009, and modern ...

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Two new bits of information have surfaced regarding Windows 10 and its various DRM and phone-home strategies. First, there's news that looks great at first glance -- Windows 10 no longer supports the ...

Microsoft's Windows 10 doesn't support the SafeDisc and SecuROM DRM schemes that were used to protect certain older games. These copy protection systems date back to when most games were distributed ...

Following our report last month highlighting the fact that SafeDisc and SecuROM DRM support was completely removed in Windows 10 - meaning older games from the noughties could no longer be played in ...

Ubi Soft Entertainment has signed an agreement with Macrovision Corporation to use the company's SafeDisc copy-protection technology to protect its upcoming PC CD-ROM games in the US. Ubi Soft already ...

Editor’s note: A follow-up to this story explains that anti-cheating technology caused problems with Gears of War, not DRM. The antipiracy technology that locked out players of the popular Gears of ...

I recently picked up for very cheap several PC games that happen to use SafeDisc v4 copy-protection, namely, Call of Duty 4, Call of Duty: World at War, and ...

We learned in August that Windows 10 does not support SafeDisc and SecuROM DRM technology, meaning that games making use of them won't run. That in itself isn't necessarily a bad thing, given their ...

Macrovision Corp. has brought its SafeDisc copy protection solution to Mac OS X. SafeDisc offers Mac developers and publishers a way of protecting their CD-ROM content. It’s a software-based solution ...

Windows 10 won’t run the DRM software. Certain DRM methods are not compatible with Microsoft's newly released operating system, Windows 10. In an interview with Rocket Beans TV, Microsoft's Boris ...