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Originally Posted by Lokus
Edit: Will, the problem is that it doesn't deter pirates at all. Every game with DRM has been cracked, many times before the official release date. Most people won't have issues with DRM but a few will and pirates will have no problems whatsoever. I don't know how easy or not it is to crack ME's or Spore's DRM but at least it's easy to tell when it has been cracked.
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This isn't as simple as pirating video or audio, though. You won't be able to get around this with a simple download of a p2p or mininova. I've seen Blizzard take on hackers on Bnet and win time and time again. I think you're assuming a lot in thinking that pirates will crack it and suddenly all pirates will have access.
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Some games have DRM that doesn't just prevent you from playing, it degrades your playing experience like killing your entire party before the last boss or making your character control strangely and be unable to reload. With those, the crackers release a crack that just removes the cd-check or something and release it while later on pirates encounter these problems. So in those cases it may take weeks or months for crackers to completely bypass the DRM but I bet ME and Spore will be cracked within days of release.
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There's no evidence to suggest that
this DRM will effect playability.
A lot of this seems too premature. So premature, in fact, that it strikes me as pretense.
This argument is still about wanting piracy to be easier.