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		<title>Blizzard believes DRM is a losing battle</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2010 05:29:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cliff Riseborough</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Blizzard has said that fighting game piracy purely with restrictive copy protection is a losing battle, according to videogamer.com. While Ubisoft has moved to a locked down server requirement for the games to work at all, Blizzard has kept the option there for the gamer to play offline. Once an initial activation is completed, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blizzard swings the ban hammer of +3 wallhack smiting</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Apr 2010 20:01:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cliff Riseborough</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Blizzard has announced that the accounts of over 320,000 Battle.net users have been suspended. The crime? Use of third party programs that violate their user agreement. From the forum announcement : We’ve recently banned over 320,000 Warcraft III and Diablo II accounts that were found to be violating the Battle.net Terms of Use. If this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Russian Starcraft II buyers will pay to play online</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Apr 2010 21:34:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cliff Riseborough</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Blizzard has previously said they would make Starcraft II pricing decisions on a regional basis. Apparently, Russian gamers are big fans of paying in regular instalments, because they’ll have to to play the game online. The base game will cost less than in other regions. However, the multiplayer out of the box will be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blizzard announces Battle.Net to be required for Starcraft II, details new additions to system UPDATED</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 07:50:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cliff Riseborough</dc:creator>
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		<title>Increased DRM in the World of Warcraft???</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jan 2010 02:28:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cliff Riseborough</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[authenticator]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; As reported on WoW.com, Blizzard is giving serious consideration to making the use of account authenticators (a physical keyfob…as seen above…that is linked to your player account) mandatory amongst its MMO player base. One of the biggest continuing issues faced by the game, and thus by its technical team, are security threats such as [...]]]></description>
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