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Article #82667Re: Amazon.com users hate "Spore" DRM
From: JAB
Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2008 17:45
Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2008 17:45
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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. Unfortunately the whole article has the air of trying to justify why someone is right to pirate a game ... to me it's just a really weird sense of logic that can come to this conclusion.
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!news.k-dsl.de!feed.xsnews.nl!border-3.ams.xsnews.nl!eweka.nl!hq-usenetpeers.eweka.nl!69.16.177.246.MISMATCH!cyclone03.ams.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!npeersf01.ams.highwinds-media.com!newsfe09.ams2.POSTED!7564ea0f!not-for-mail From: JAB <nochance@nohope.com> User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (Windows/20080708) MIME-Version: 1.0 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 Subject: Re: Amazon.com users hate "Spore" DRM References: <94b9b5835db6b616cfdd9f7dd549cf0b@pseudo.borked.net> <714e7c984757793edd58d3ef3e172def@pseudo.borked.net> <lefqc4pau5ma0brcsf175v8goikv7a8q45@4ax.com> <C-qdnUy61LBl3VDVnZ2dnUVZ8tPinZ2d@bt.com> In-Reply-To: <C-qdnUy61LBl3VDVnZ2dnUVZ8tPinZ2d@bt.com> Lines: 23 Message-ID: <f5czk.33492$S64.23577@newsfe09.ams2> NNTP-Posting-Host: 81.98.153.55 X-Complaints-To: http://netreport.virginmedia.com X-Trace: newsfe09.ams2 1221414347 81.98.153.55 (Sun, 14 Sep 2008 17:45:47 UTC) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2008 17:45:47 UTC Organization: virginmedia.com Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2008 18:45:26 +0100 Bytes: 2445 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit