Originally Posted by shakran

It's pretty stupid, too, because draconian copy protection schemes like this actually encourage piracy. It'll take the crackers about 2 days to come out with a DRM-free version of Spore, at which point people who would have bought the game will pick the illegal version instead because it works better and doesn't screw up your computer.

It's like the war on drugs. These guys think they can achieve a 0% piracy rate. You can't. There will always be lawbreakers who pirate games. Always. So instead of spending gobs of cash and customer satisfaction coming up with more and more restrictive DRM schemes, concentrate on keeping the majority of game players, who DO buy the game legally, from getting pissed off enough to try piracy instead.