
EFF: Tell Us Your DRM Horror Stories about Ebooks, Games, Music, Movies and IoT - g1n016399
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/03/ebooks-games-music-movies-and-internet-things-tell-us-your-drm-horror-stories
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wodenokoto
I don't know if it is a horror story, but I bought a kindle edition of a
reference work to use on my iPad (it was a kindle-fire book, apparently
optimised for tablets) and the app is so slow that searching or flipping pages
is useless.

There are cracked PDF's version of the book, which I can search in seconds and
flip pages fast, copy content into a google search and use my build-in
dictionary to look up words.

The PDF version is everything the kindle version is not: Free and useful.

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g1n016399
Please tell the EFF about that.

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dm_i386
I recently wanted to show my wife a video game I enjoyed when I was younger.
The game used SecuROM DRM which I was unable to work around in Wine.
Apparently, it requires an insecure driver in Windows, which has since been
removed. I really wanted to play this game, so I was forced to manually enable
the disabled driver in Windows 7 by following this guide:
[http://www.howtogeek.com/230773/how-to-play-pc-games-that-
re...](http://www.howtogeek.com/230773/how-to-play-pc-games-that-require-
safedisc-or-securom-drm-on-windows-10-8.1-8-7-and-vista/). The SecuROM driver
has apparently been removed completely in Windows 10.

