Let’s assume I was trying to run homebrew applications on my PSP. For this hypothetical scenario, my sole purpose for doing this would be to play PSone games on my PSP. Likewise assume that I own all of the games I will be using an emulator to play on the PSP and the programs I will be using to do so are free to use. The only thing stopping me from doing so would be the software running on the PSP. Is this at all fair? Is it right that the manufacturers of both handheld and home consoles control nearly every aspect of how we use them?

DRM has become an ugly sore on the lip of gaming. While software publishers have always implemented measures to prevent the piracy of their games, those measures have gotten rather drastic in recent history. Gamers cried out against the use…

We’ve drafted what we believe to be the first gaming DRM Bill of Rights. We’ve done so with the sincerest hopes that gamers and industry reps alike will look at it, and use it as a measuring stick to determine…