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JAB wrote:
> 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.


Its that kind of site though Jab - pro-sharing.

That's why I'd like to see an independent study - I think it'd be of 
interest to publishers and devs.  I'm sure that a number of people who 
read the outcry on Amazon and other sites but were looking forward to 
the game may well have though I wonder how hard bit-torrent actually is 
to use?

Walt's confident that no decent person would be driven to behaving like 
a criminal even if people consistently treat them as criminals and I'm 
sure he's right for a percentage of people.  Andrew has a good, common 
sense point but I'm not sure that 'if' normal non-thieving bastards 
suddenly decide to d-load Azureus of UTorrent because they've had enough 
of DRM whether they are bothered about sending a message or just want to 
play.

This game is the wrong one for such a study anyway by the sound of it. 
Even without DRM it hasn't turned out to be much of a game and I'm not 
sure 'any' of those million d-loaders would have paid for it...