Gadget-philes and generally all software consumers bristle whenever they hear this magic code: DRM. Subscribers to Nokia’s newly-launched N-Gage gaming service is of no exception, currently doomed with games that are locked to their mobile phones and would not be transferable to their new handsets, should they decide to upgrade.
Needless to say, the idea of having to buy their games again after getting a new phone made several Nokia users angry. One of the posters in All About N-Gage spilled the beans on the rather rigid DRM on N-Gage games, and the article managed to catch the attention of Nokia itself.
Nokia somehow understood their concerns, and posted the following official statement, part of which reads:
We’ve noticed a number of media stories about N-Gage game transfers and wanted to clarify the issue. Due to replicate protection, N-Gage games, like most mobile games, are linked to one device. As the value of content increases, a robust copy protection mechanism is essential as it makes it possible for the games industry to invest in N-Gage content.
We acknowledge our customers’ concerns and have been working on a solution that would allow people to transfer bought N-Gage games to a new Nokia device. We’re working with our Nokia Care Centers with an intermediate solution to enable the licensed transfers of games until a final solution is ready to be deployed.
All’s well that ends well, then. We hope that other software outfits who use rather inflexible DRM policies would eventually follow suit.
source mobile.qj.net