SporeCast 6: Digital Rights Management Disaster

DRM (dig­i­tal rights man­age­ment) seems to be the acronym on everyone’s lips this week as out­rage is expressed left, right and cen­ter on the con­tro­ver­sial DRM inclu­sion in the lat­est game by Will Wright — Spore. Will DRM destroy the very thing it was designed to pro­tect? Join Kym Huynh and Alehkhs this week to find out what they think.

• Spore mas­sively pirated despite DRM
• Spore DRM could kill PC gaming
• Opin­ion: Spore Ori­gins and the iPhone’s grow­ing dom­i­na­tion of hand­held gaming
• Spore breaks into Euro charts
• Spore becom­ing a pop­u­lar Bit­Tor­rent pirate game
• Will Wright talks about Spore…again
• Spore Amazon.com reviews van­ish, then reap­pear; EA talks about DRM
• More Spore account issues surface
• Spore Mod­i­fi­ca­tion to reduce Attack Rate
• Copy Pro­tec­tion

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