Digital Rights Management in video games: their impact on performance and the legal structure connected to them
Colangelo, Timothy (2020)
2020
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2020090320065
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2020090320065
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Video games in the past few years have become the biggest entertainment market industry, raking in over tens of billions of dollars in the past five years.
This thesis focuses on Digital Rights Management functions in videogames and how DRM intertwines with video games in order to avoid piracy. The research goes into detail about the history and concepts of DRM and anti-piracy measures in both the past and present. However, the main focus of this research is DRM relating hinderances in video game performance. The study conducted focused on six video games, using four criteria to deter-mine whether video games equipped with DRM perform worse than their DRM-free counterparts.
This research uses a correlationall quantitative approach: the data gathered, as mentioned earlier, comes from a pool of six games, using four different criteria, and compare results by using mathematical averages to empirically describe increase and decrease.
The research shows that performance in DRM-free video games is marginally better comparing to video games using DRM technologies, while the size of DRM-free video games shrunk significantly after DRM removal.
This thesis focuses on Digital Rights Management functions in videogames and how DRM intertwines with video games in order to avoid piracy. The research goes into detail about the history and concepts of DRM and anti-piracy measures in both the past and present. However, the main focus of this research is DRM relating hinderances in video game performance. The study conducted focused on six video games, using four criteria to deter-mine whether video games equipped with DRM perform worse than their DRM-free counterparts.
This research uses a correlationall quantitative approach: the data gathered, as mentioned earlier, comes from a pool of six games, using four different criteria, and compare results by using mathematical averages to empirically describe increase and decrease.
The research shows that performance in DRM-free video games is marginally better comparing to video games using DRM technologies, while the size of DRM-free video games shrunk significantly after DRM removal.