Re: Amazon.com users hate "Spore" DRM

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From: David Alex Lamb
Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2008 00:27

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Rob P wrote:
> I am in communications with the Uk Trading Standards body about this and 
> hope to pursue this further.

More power to you.  Unfortunately the computing industry in general has 
done its best over the years to avoid having to live up to trading 
standards, to the extent in some cases claiming that providing you a 
disk was a "service" and not a "product" (which has totally different 
liability laws)

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