Ubisoft’s uPlay DRM lives on after patent lawsuit dismissed

3 Jul 2014

Steve Wright

A United States District Court judge recently dismissed a lawsuit against Ubisoft and its uPlay DRM software.

The suit claimed that Ubisoft violated patents held by Digital Reg of Texas in uPlay’s design.

Filed back in 2012, the suit alleged that Ubisoft violated six of Digital Reg’s patents in regards to remotely tracking access to software after distribution and post-distribution security and the like.

Judge Claudia Wilken dismissed the suit for “numerous reasons,” citing an agreement between Digital Reg and Valve over third-party use of the patents in question.

So Ubisoft’s controversial uPlay DRM lives on. Yay?

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Steve's the owner and Editor-in-Chief of Stevivor.com, the country’s leading independent video games outlet. Steve arrived in Australia back in 2001 on what was meant to be a three-month working holiday before deciding to emigrate and, eventually, becoming a citizen.

Stevivor is a combination of ‘Steve’ and ‘Survivor’, which made more sense back in 2001 when Jeff Probst was up in Queensland. The site started as Steve’s travel blog before transitioning over into video games.

Aside from video games, Steve has interests in hockey and Star Trek, playing the former and helping to cover video games about the latter on TrekMovie.com. By day, Steve works as the communications manager of the peak body representing Victorians as they age.