Archive: september 14, 2008

Forbes: Spore Downloaded 35K Times Weds-Thurs [Spore]

Forbes: Spore Downloaded 35K Times Weds-Thurs [Spore] I'm not sure if this qualifies as a Streisand Effect, but in the case of Spore, the stimulus and the response are palpable. The anti-DRM backlash against Spore is at least partly responsible for the more than 35,000 illegal downloads of the game reported between Wednesday and Thursday, a figure revealed by Forbes in a look at the game's "piracy problem." The quotes from hackers, crackers and others in download forums seems to suggest they were provoked by what they see as a needless insertion of DRM restrictions on the game.
"By downloading this torrent, you are doing the right thing," wrote one...

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Tags: DRM, Electronic Arts, PC Gaming, Spore

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