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Article #82621Re: Amazon.com users hate "Spore" DRM
From: Dimensional Traveler
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 19:38
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 19:38
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none wrote: > "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. > You'd think the publishers would learn something from the fact that pirated copies keep showing up days or weeks before the "legal" versions. Like the problem is not someone buying one and then copying it for the world? And DRM anti-copying measures on the copies they sell aren't going to do a thing about large scale piracy because the real software pirates are tapping in much farther up the distribution chain? -- "What Kind of perv rememembers the scenes where she's clothed???" - Anim8rFSK, 8/23/08
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