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Article #82664Re: Amazon.com users hate "Spore" DRM
From: Dimensional Traveler
Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2008 22:04
Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2008 22:04
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Shawk wrote: > Andrew wrote: >> On Sun, 14 Sep 2008 09:49:00 -0600 (MDT), DC >> <nobody@pseudo.borked.net> wrote: >> >>> "Spore: Most Pirated Game Ever, Thanks to DRM" - >>> http://atu.ca/675 >> >> Spore: Most Pirated Game Ever, by a bunch of thieves pretending they >> are on a moral crusade. >> >> No wonder PC gaming is dying. > > > Absolutely they should have bought the game if they're going to play > it but I do have to wonder. Is there any merit to the argument that > people that might normally have bought the game, that might normally > be averse to d-loading something for free are now getting so fed up > that they're looking to d-load because of DRM? I'd certainly be > interested to see an independent study of that. I've never pirated a game or downloaded a cracked version but there have been several that I would have bought if not for the DRM or other malware that would have had to be installed with them. -- "What Kind of perv rememembers the scenes where she's clothed???" - Anim8rFSK, 8/23/08
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newsfeed.news.ucla.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.kjsl.com!news-xfer.nntp.sonic.net!posts.news.sonic.net!nnrp0.nntp.sonic.net!not-for-mail From: "Dimensional Traveler" <dtravel@sonic.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.strategic, comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.misc, comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.rpg, comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action References: <94b9b5835db6b616cfdd9f7dd549cf0b@pseudo.borked.net> <714e7c984757793edd58d3ef3e172def@pseudo.borked.net> <lefqc4pau5ma0brcsf175v8goikv7a8q45@4ax.com> <C-qdnUy61LBl3VDVnZ2dnUVZ8tPinZ2d@bt.com> Subject: Re: Amazon.com users hate "Spore" DRM Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2008 15:04:39 -0700 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.3138 X-RFC2646: Format=Flowed; Response X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3350 Lines: 30 Message-ID: <48cd8a75$0$33506$742ec2ed@news.sonic.net> Organization: Sonic.Net NNTP-Posting-Date: 14 Sep 2008 22:04:37 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 79efae15.news.sonic.net X-Trace: DXC=X<__RbHjcL@OdFF3EH5`WCm4K\QM1CV^@1OYf0H`?; XAeNW_QVX2DPABI[kiSCH:9MM9YD5L4<EiHbL76N1PMJ=E X-Complaints-To: abuse@sonic.net Bytes: 2400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit