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Protocols for an Alternate Content Securing System: An Alternative to D.R.M

Over the years, we PC gamers had to give up freedom over our games because of the various digital rights management (D.R.M) schemes. In most cases, these end up punishing the legitimate customers than discouraging piracy----like Uplay didn't let me play Assassins creed 2 after a clean format. But in the current scenario of rampant piracy in PC games, simply cursing over D.R.M's can't lead to any solution. Think about it for a while----totally removing these draconian schemes from our games forever may not help PC gaming in any sustainable way. It certainly won't do anything towards reducing piracy and at worst, many AAA developers may stop developing for the PC platform altogether. What we really need is an alternate content securing system that will never get in the way of legitimate owners & reward them for their love of gaming instead of making them fearful for losing access to their games. It's not hard to notice the pattern in the majority of

Dragon Age 2 guide----The Shadowy Assassin

"It's a ghost, it's a one hit killer, oh no it's the Shadowy Assassin"----Lieutenant That's actually the most apt description I've found for this unbelievably powerful build, believe it or not. The Shadowy Assassin (SA) is simply an unstoppable force of nature. He moves so fast that enemies have a hard time trying to get a bead on him, annihilates weaker foes with one shot (not talking about spike damage)----even after some archers actually manage to focus on him, all they can manage to hit is a rigged decoy ready to blow into smithereens. Meanwhile the SA makes short work of them from behind, and when that Lieutenant is the only one left standing, something beautiful happens----the mage puts a winter's grasp/cone of cold on him, the SA throws something at the Lieutenant & when he thinks he's got it figured, only the cracking sound of bones getting crunched is heard----poetry in motion. The fight is over before it ever had a ch