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Re: Amazon.com users hate "Spore" DRM

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From: Andrew
Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2008 17:05
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On Sun, 14 Sep 2008 17:50:51 +0100, Shawk <shawk@clara.co.uk.3guesses>
wrote:

>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.

If people want to protest, don't buy the game, and email the
publishers telling them why. Publishers have no way of knowing which
of the millions of warezed copies are just the usual thieves or those
"making a stand" (no difference in my mind) so therefore no useful
message is sent.
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Subject: Re: Amazon.com users hate "Spore" DRM
Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2008 18:05:37 +0100
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