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 Send to email | Forbes: Spore Downloaded 35K Times Weds-Thurs [Spore] in Spore Drm Electronic Arts Pc Gaming |  By Owen Good
el 13-Sep-2008 |  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 user going by the name of "deathkitten" on the popular file-sharing site The Pirate Bay. "You are letting [Electronic Arts] know that people won't stand for their ridiculously draconian 'DRM' viruses."
"You have the power to make this the most pirated game ever, to give corporate bastards a virtual punch in the face," deathkitten added in another comment.
Overall, Spore was downloaded via filesharing networks more than 171,000 times as of writing, an expected number given the visibility and the anticipation behind the title. But getting to that number this quickly is unexpected, and the rate of downloading from Wednesday to Thursday is attention grabbing, Forbes writes. For its part, EA in a statement says that the percentage of users installing on more than one computer is less than 25 percent, and less than 1 percent install on more than two machines. If that's the case; if hackers are going to break your DRM anyway (Spore was cracked and torrented at the beginning of the month); and if putting in these controls generates such mistrust and bad PR, when their real effect is on a microscopic minority of your users, then, really ? why bother? Spore's Piracy Problem [Forbes.com]
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| 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 betw [..] Read complete article | | Published 13-Sep-2008 by Owen Good in Spore Drm Electronic Arts Pc Gaming
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| Spore's Sporepedia Goes Live [Maxis] | | Care to take a gander at the breadth and depth of Spore's creature creator? Then direct thy internet compass northward to the official Spore web site, with a freshly populated "Sporepedia" that's growing by the minute. The Spore mons [..] Read complete article | | Published 10-Jun-2008 by Michael McWhertor in EaNewsSporeWill Wright
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| Spore's Sporepedia Goes Live [Maxis] | | Care to take a gander at the breadth and depth of Spore's creature creator? Then direct thy internet compass northward to the official Spore web site, with a freshly populated "Sporepedia" that's growing by the minute. The Spore monster [..] Read complete article | | Published 10-Jun-2008 by Michael McWhertor in Maxis Ea News Spore Will Wright
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| You Got Your Master Chief In My Spore! [Halo] | | It may not be as mindblowingly impressive as the amazing StarCraft recreation done in Spore, and the shine of Spore creature creations may have started to dull to the more jaded of us, but this collection of [..] Read complete article | | Published 06-Nov-2008 by Michael McWhertor in Halo Culture Ea Master Chief Oddities Spore
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| Frankenreview: Spore [Round Up] | | Game industry legend Will Wright is no stranger to creating life, but Spore marks his first attempt to create it from the ground up. One of the most highly anticipated PC games of the past decade, Spore's ambitions don't stop at expan [..] Read complete article | | Published 10-Sep-2008 by Mike Fahey in Round Up Ea frankenreview Maxis Original Spore Top Will Wright
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| Retailers Listing Spore "Expansion" [Rumor] | | Listings have turned up on both GameStop and Amazon's store pages for a Spore expansion. Sorry, "expansion". Called Spore Cute & Creepy Parts Pack, it's got a shipping date of November 18, and is currently listed at $20. Going by the name - and really, that's [..] Read complete article | | Published 03-Oct-2008 by Luke Plunkett in Rumor Ea Maxis Retail Spore
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