Netflix plans first steps to move from Silverlight to HTML5

With Microsoft planning to end support for its Silverlight video plugin by 2021, Netflix has begun to shift towards using HTML5 for video playback.

Ubisoft shifts its digital rights management stance from stick to carrot

Ubisoft clarifies its stance on digital rights management.

Appageddon aftermath: Apple, where do your negative reviews go? (updated)

Appagedon is over, for now. Apps are once again being downloaded from Apple's app store, they're working, and all is well in Apple's app-dom.

Aziz Ansari follows Louis CK’s lead with $5 DRM-free stand-up special

Following Louis CK’s successful digital distribution experiment, popular stand-up comedian and actor Aziz Ansari is doing the same with his $5 digital release of one-hour special Dangerously Delicious, which is available today.

In December, CK made his performance of …

Ubisoft server transition will make always-on DRM games unplayable

Many of Assassin’s Creed publisher Ubisoft’s online services will be offline starting Feb. 7 as it moves its servers from a third-party data center to a new facility. During this time, Ubisoft says the online features of some of its …

CD Projekt demands $1,230 from suspected Witcher 2 pirates

Last month Witcher 2 developer CD Projekt talked about the estimated 4.5 million copies of its game that had been illegally downloaded via BitTorrent. Now it seems the company is going after users it believes have downloaded the game illegally, …

Louis CK’s web-only special makes $500K in 4 days

Comedian Louis CK has divulged the results of his $5 web special experiment, and the numbers look good.

In just four days, the special has sold over 110,000 copies making over $500,000, CK said in a statement today. He …

Despite heavy Witcher 2 piracy, CD Projekt still rejects DRM

PC fantasy RPG The Witcher 2 has been a massive success for the developers at Poland’s CD Projekt, with over one million sales since the game’s May launch. But that sales success is dwarfed by what the company’s CEO and …