Re: Amazon.com users hate "Spore" DRM

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From: none
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 11:25

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"Tim O" <timo56@REMOVEhotmail.com> wrote:
> Here is my take on this, and what I suggest publishers do... These
> titles are mostly only hot to pirates when they're new. If they
> implement the DRM for the first few months of of the release they
> would protect their program and satisfy long term fans.

The cracked version of Spore was on usenet around a week before the US 
release.

~None

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