Re: Amazon.com users hate "Spore" DRM

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From: Brian Adams
Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2008 22:55

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On Sat, 20 Sep 2008 16:38:51 -0700, Loren Pechtel
<lorenpechtel@hotmail.invalid.com> wrote:

>On Wed, 17 Sep 2008 15:27:35 -0400, David Alex Lamb
><dalamb@cs.queensu.ca> wrote:
>
>>Magnate wrote:
>>> I've resisted the temptation to join this thread so far, but I just have to 
>>> say that that's the best explanation for why DRM is a bad thing that I've 
>>> ever seen.
>>
>>I guess it's an application of the basic idea that an officer should 
>>never issue an order he knows won't be obeyed, and a legislature should 
>>be wary about passing laws they know are going to be largely ignored.
>
>Agreed.  DRM just encourages hostility towards the game makers and
>thus encourages piracy.

Yes from what I have read is that SPORE is now the most pirated Game out.

Plus the other problem the DRM   would not be Valid here in NZ, I often have
to reinstall XP a few times, I play with stacks of software and some Beta's,
our Retail laws stated that it must be fit for the purpose it was made for so
restricting the reinstalls to 5 as I think it would be illegal here.

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Subject: Re: Amazon.com users hate "Spore" DRM
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