Chris's Digital Realm

If you’re a student of the University of Huddersfield, or considering applying there (or have done so), or used to study there some time ago, you might be interested in a new web site Andy, Dan, and myself (see right) are setting up.

Huddersfield Student Voice aims to fill a gap that the University and Students’ Union have in their sites: a fun and safe online community for students to talk to one another and express their views and opinions about the University, Huddersfield as a whole, or anything else for that matter!

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Sony, not content enough alienating customers of its music business by installing rootkits under the excuse of Digital Rights Management, has done it again. This time it’s their games business, though!

A recent patent filed by Sony describes a technology which would tie a video game (or potentially any other digital media) to the first device it was played in, thus making impossible the sale of second hand games which, if you think about it the way they do, equates to lost revenue. I don’t know about you, but we’ve got a lot of second hand games we would have never bought new, ever, so surely it gives them more exposure that way?

Anyway, imagine this scenario: someone steals your brand new PS3 console. Or it breaks. You just got paid so you go out and buy a new PS3 to replace it, but all of a sudden your games refuse to play! How did that happen? Hmm.

I think Sony have lost yet another potential customer. But that probably doesn’t matter, they’ll probably find a way of bringing the law down on people who refuse to buy their stuff.

Update: I’ve just heard of yet another piece of malicious DRM Sony uses on its CDs…

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