Digital Rights Management

Despite Electronic Arts' good-faith effort last week to relax copyright restrictions in Spore, critics of the game's digital rights management have been vehement, bringing their protests to Amazon.com reviews, message boards, blogs and now federal court. The law firm handling it is t...

 UK EA discovered this last year when it sought to implement a digital rights management (DRM) system in game releases such as Spore and Mass Effect, which would have required online authentication of each game every 10 days. A group of consumers filed a ...

 NY That stuff, Riccitiello said, is the kind of approach he's happier to take than to load a game up with Digital Rights Management restrictions, as EA had done with Spore. "To quote [Valve founder] Gabe Newell badly, DRM won't work unless you add value. ...

PC World  UK The game maker nixed its draconic digital rights management (DRM) for The Sims 3 , and the game's already on track to being pirated more often than Spore — counted as the most pirated game of 2008. The game's official release isn't until Jaune 5 but ...

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PC World  UK Spore was initially released with highly-restrictive digital rights management (DRM) anti-piracy measures, that were soon cracked. The very restrictive DRM caused massive anger amongst many gamers and led to a public campaign of intentional piracy. ...

By Chris Meadows Found via Ars Technica: Perhaps the great Spore DRM backlash has had an effect after all. The Federal Trade Commission is going to hold a “town hall meeting” to discuss the issue of Digital Rights Management in general. Digital rights management (DRM) refers to technologies typically use...

By Jim Reilly Will Wright attended the Popular Mechanics Breakthrough Awards ceremony at the Hearst Tower in New York City last night where he saw Spore pick up an award for Setting Benchmarks in Design, Creativity and Engineering. I caught up with him afterward for a bit to find out his take on the whole...

By Michael Masnick There have been a variety of highly questionable stories over the past few months claiming that piracy was somehow killing the PC gaming industry -- even as stats were showing that the industry is actually thriving. A lot of this came to a head over the last month, with the EA Spore fiasco -- w...

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 CA - The spokesperson compared Spore's security to that of Apple's iTunes service, in that both allow a limited number of installs. The difference is that iTunes ... EA To Relax 'Spore' DRM In Upcoming Patch G4 TV all 2 news articles

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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). ... Spore hit by DRM protest Financial Times Spore gamers turn nasty over DRM - Amazon review roasting TECH.BLORGE.com Will DRM Exterminate Spore? Slashdot

By hx you can read an interview with Spore executive producer Lucy Bradshaw. He confirms that there will be no specific demo except for the Creature Creator and that the game will include DRM protection: "We do have copy protection, it.

Executive producer Lucy Bradshaw beleives that Spore\'s anti piracy measures are an unavoidable part of creating a PC game. She noted that copy protection is a neccessary part of their business but have worked out something that does ...

 - Aug 15, 2008 We do have copy protection, it is a necessary part of our biz, but we've worked to make it something that does not punish the legit owners," Bradshaw told ...

 - Aug 15, 2008 by Aaron Linde Aug 15, 2008 2:21pm CST tags: Spore, DRM Executive producer Lucy Bradshaw described the copy protection built into EA Maxis' upcoming ...

DRM Clarification for Mass Effect and Spore Gamers Hell, UK - In this Official BioWare/EA Response to DRM Discussion thread, BioWare has annouced that Mass Effect will not require 10- day periodic re-authentication ...

DRM Clarification for Mass Effect and Spore  UK - May 9, 2008 In this Official BioWare/EA Response to DRM Discussion thread, BioWare has annouced that Mass Effect will not require 10- day periodic re-authentication ...

In this Official BioWare/EA Response to DRM Discussion thread, BioWare has annouced that Mass Effect will not require 10- day periodic re-authentication ... EA cut down copy protection Play.tm BioWare backs down over Mass Effect authentication gamezine.co.uk

Personally I don't see the big deal about the online DRM, especially for a game such as Spore which all but requires you to play online and communicate regularly with EA's servers. Heck, Spore is almost an MMORPG in considering all the ...