13.12.2008 21:35 Uhr, Quelle: Hardmac.com

DRM pushing people towards piracy?

Source: Branchez-vous (in French) According to estimates, the most pirated game of 2008 is SPORE. Some think that this is due to the extremely draconian DRM protection that EA added to the game. Legitimate buyers of the game (that's some 2 million folks) had to have their machine connect to an activation server in order to validate their install, and could only do it twice (which means that if you bought a new machine, then maybe upgraded to a newer version of Windows, you were out of luck). Add to that the fact that EA's activation servers suffered strokes under the massive load of activation requests after the game launch, and customers where less than happy. After all, you could get a free copy on the pirate networks, WITHOUT the painful DRM. So it is thought that some people who bought a copy of the game actually ended up downloading pirate copi

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