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On Sep 8, 12:29 pm, Tim O <tim...@REMOVEhotmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon,  8 Sep 2008 09:05:07 -0600 (MDT), DC
>
> <nob...@pseudo.borked.net> wrote:
> >1Up.comhttp://atu.ca/647
>
> >If you take a look at Spore's listing on Amazon.com
> >http://atu.ca/SPOREyou may be surprised to notice that the
> >game (as of this writing) has an abysmal user rating of one-
> >and-a-half stars. But that isn't necessarily an indictment
> >of the game's quality -- out of 184 customer reviews, 159
> >are one-star ratings, and just about all of them have one
> >thing in common: pure, vile hatred of the game's digital
> >rights management, or DRM (via Destructoid).
>
> I'm no fan of this type of copy protection, and could give less than a
> shit about Spore, but this reeks of some web sites DRM agenda.
>
> Here is my take on this, and what I suggest publishers do... These
> titles are mostly only hot to pirates when they're new. If they
> implement the DRM for the first few months of of the release they
> would protect their program and satisfy long term fans. Perhaps patch
> it or have it do one last "phone home" once the game hits the 20
> dollar price point. After that point, all you would need is the CD key
> and the install limitation would be removed.
The whole point is that DRM does *nothing* to stop pirating.  The DRM-
less cracked game was available 4!! days before it was released in
North America.  So those who pirated the game were and still are
playing the game not caring about how many computers they install it
on, or if they can safely upgrade their video card or hard drive
without the game thinking this is a new installation.

> I don't understand why someone would need to reinstall 3 times in that
> time period unless they're a shithead that deserves to deal with phone
> support.
As specified above, it's most probably not 3 "installs", it might be 3
different hardware configurations (otherwise you could just copy the
game folder and registry and would be able to install it as many times
as you want). That means, upgrading your video card, buying a new hard
drive, adding memory, installing a Bluray player, etc. could
potentially count as a new installation.  Also, I don't do it as
frequently as other people, but in the last 4 years I've re-installed
Windows 2 times, that means 5 years from now I would probably be out
of luck if I wanted to play a game I bought today.