Re: Amazon.com users hate "Spore" DRM

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From: riku
Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2008 06:36

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On Mon, 8 Sep 2008 13:19:08 -0700 (PDT), WDS <Bill@seurer.net> wrote:

>DRM is like locks on your house.  It won't keep out a pro or something
>who REALLY wants in but it will dissuade the casual thief.

Unfortunately, the casual pirate gets his cracked games from p2p
networks, the same place they get their pirated mp3 music from.

I don't know where some people get the wrong idea that casual game
copying (casual piracy) today would mean copying games from your
friends CDs/diskettes/tapes. People, 80s with Apple IIc, C=64 and
Amiga is long gone. Internet is here.

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Subject: Re: Amazon.com users hate "Spore" DRM
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