Revenue effects of #Denuvo digital rights management on #PC video #games

Source: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1875952124002532

• Denuvo #DRM protects total revenue from piracy by a mean of 15% and a median of 20%.
• #Piracy causes mean total revenue to decrease by 20% when Denuvo is cracked quickly.
• Piracy causes zero mean total revenue loss when Denuvo survives for 12 weeks or more.
• The characteristics of a #game cannot explain its likelihood of being cracked.

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First of all DRM is not digital rights management, it is digital restrictions management for the #gamer. Often DRM is making performance and installing problems.
It's important to know that DRM must be payed but makes a game #experience worse. DRM costs #money, #energy, #performance, patches and #support but without any positive effect for the consumer.

The question now is: are these costs higher or lower 20% of lost consumer licenses?

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#capitalism #profit #entertainment #news #copy #economy #Problem #study #finance #copyright

● NEWS ● #Techdirt #DRM ☞ #Denuvo Games Once Again Broken For Paying Customers Thanks To DRM Mishap https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20211109/09064247908/denuvo-games-once-again-broken-paying-customers-thanks-to-drm-mishap.shtml

#Denuvo - Protected #Games Rendered Unplayable After #Domain Expires

source: https://torrentfreak.com/denuvo-protected-games-rendered-unplayable-after-domain-expires-211108/

One of the great ironies of anti-piracy technologies is that they not only offer zero benefits to paying customers but when things go wrong, pirates are often better off.

This obvious truth cannot be repeated often enough:

One of the great ironies of anti-piracy technologies is that they not only offer zero benefits to paying customers but when things go wrong, pirates are often better off.

#game #gamer #steam #pc #fail #drm #wtf #economy #entertainment #piracy #technology #news

● NEWS ● #TorrentFreak #copyright #copyrights #DRM ☞ #Denuvo -Encumbered Games Rendered Unplayable After Domain Expires https://torrentfreak.com/denuvo-protected-games-rendered-unplayable-after-domain-expires-211108/

#Intel processors Core i-12000: #Copy #protection crashes #games

source: https://news.in-24.com/news/257112.html

More than 50 games do not run properly if you start them on a desktop #PC with a processor from Intel’s Alder Lake-S series such as the Core i9-12900K. The copy protection mechanisms used by the publisher for digital rights management (DRM) are to blame – Intel cites #Denuvo’s software as the most prominent example.

#DRM makes games more expensive, costs electricity and computing power and reduces the gaming experience. It's a no-win #software because it punishes legitimate players.

#gamer #fail #wtf #performance #economy #news #cpu #patch #entertainment