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A number of game publishers have been hit with a lawsuit from a company that claims the publishers used their software products illegally. California-based Uniloc filed the lawsuit late in July against a number of companies including Activision Blizzard, Ubisoft and Aspyr Media.

Uniloc claims in its lawsuit that the above companies and others used software that violated one of Uniloc's software patents. The software in question registers on one PC so it cannot be copied on other PCs. The company claims the publisher's actions "have caused reparable and irreparable damage to Uniloc." The company is seeking an unspecified dollar number in damages.

[Via GamePolitics]

If you were hoping that the PC port of the upcoming single player-only RPG Alpha Protocol would not have any DRM set-up, well, sorry. Eurogamer reports that the super-spy themed title from developer Obsidian Entertainment and publisher Sega will have some kind of copyright protection from Uniloc.

There's no word on what exactly this will mean for PC players. A check on Uniloc's web site says their solution works "politely and unobtrusively". We are just hoping that means it will have a one time internet authentication rather than a full Ubisoft "Always On" set-up. Because that would be bad. Very, very bad.