Good for you, bad for people who don't have/want/can't afford consoles/want to play their games/others on PC.

And in English here. There aren't as many yet, but the trend is obvious.

Assassin's Creed II DRM Authentification Server Goes Belly Up, Game Unplayable. JUST LOL.
http://worthplaying.com/article/2010/3/8/news/72887/

We have known about that for a while now. Blizzard are doing similar with Starcraft 2. The thing is it's only these multi-player games (for now). The single player games like DA:O, NFS:Shift and ME2 are following the DLC route and very little DRM. It's only Ubisoft that is using this system for single player games like Arse Creed 2 and Sphincter Cell: Concoction that force you to be online. If EA were to announce this DRM for ME3 and DA 2 then you bet I will be cursing them from the nearest church tower.

I laughed.

Haha, poop jokes.

No, they're NOT >:[. You WILL be able to play single-player offline, while C&C requires you to connect EVERY TIME you wish to play.

I said similar. Jesus people don't half jump down your throats when you say something negative about Blizzard...
If you want to use your profile, the one you registered with Battle.Net (and it's mandatory to register an account to activate the game) then you have to be online. Otherwise you have to use a guest profile. The game also requires ongoing validation, nothing like UbiDRM but probably like Steam's monthly update.

Bumping due dumb Ubisoft and shitty Kotaku:
http://kotaku.com/5501524/prince-of-persia-has-lost-players-to-god-of-war-says-ubisoft

http://news.bigdownload.com/2010/05/04/assassins-creed-pc-pirate-sentenced/

Odd... 25,000 fine seems to be the only bad part of it all... I mean with Music they go for the throat... maybe judges see how crazy it is to charge people money they dont have..

Good, the duplicators is where they should focus security, its where the most damaging theft happens

Note that this seems to have been an actual criminal prosecution, probably over the actual theft of the physical product, and the penalties for criminal cases tend to be pretty clearly defined by law (with strict limits on the extent of the penalties for a given offense). In contrast the kind of copyright infringement suits you're thinking of are civil suits, and the damages in those can be pretty much whatever the plaintiff asks for (provided a judge doesn't have the sense to tone it down).

Ubisoft should drop their whole company, that'd be good news! Nobody needs Ubisoft games anymore with this DRM crap, no more printed manuals, probably also drinking beer all day (Krombacher, and one Euro goes to WWF).