Hordes of video game lovers, many of whom were devoted to the widely popular Sims video games, waited anxiously for Electronic Arts newest video game promulgation titled Spore. Electronics Arts did not disappoint it’s many fans as the $49.99 regular edition of Spore, the $9.99 Spore Creature Creator and the $79.99 Galactic edition of Spore were released without a hitch and were quickly snatched off the retail stores shelves. Although Spore’s sales didn’t quite match the volume of sales of video game monoliths Guitar Hero III or Grand Theft Auto IV, it did very well. It is usually most a week after a video game promulgation when the grouping who bought the game begin flooding the Internet with either their personal praise or damnation of the video game. They speech most things same game play, graphics speed and resolution, end game, online play, character antiquity etc. Not this time! With Spore, the speech was all most its DRM!

What is DRM? The copyright endorsement titled DRM is an acronym for Digital Rights Management, a term used to describe the assorted techniques for restricting the free use and transfer of digital content. DRM is used in a number of media, but is found most often in penalization and video files. Many of grouping believe that DRM should stand for Digital Restrictions Manager being that it manages users restrictions while taking away their rights. Companies same Apple began using DRM under the auspices of fighting piracy. Has it worked? You tell me. After the news of the type of severe DRM Electronics Arts put on Spore spread to future buyers, it took only life for over 500,000 illegal copies of the Spore video game (without DRM) to be downloaded from P2P BitTorrent sites on the Internet. Does DRM work? No! It ticks grouping off. If you don’t believe it, ask Amazon.com, where thousands of grouping unhappy with Spore’s DRM restrictions gave the new video game a lowly one star rating. Thanks to DRM, Spore has become the most pirated game ever.

So, what was so bad most Spore’s DRM to get so many grouping in an uproar? Here is what it is all most and I am going to tell you from first hand experience because I purchased the $79.99 Galactic edition of Spore and after one solon download, the game will be worthless. Because my video bill was not set perfectly to run Spore, I received a warning message after the first artefact that I needed to change my video bill settings and reinstall Spore again or the game would not work. One artefact used. I did what was required and reinstalled Spore again. No error messages this time, the game works wonderfully. Two installations used. So why am I counting installations? You see, with Spore’s DRM restrictions, the purchaser can only install the game three times. After the third installation, your bought and paid for game of Spore will be null but a meritless piece of plastic. You can play it, but you will never be able to install it again. So you pray null goes wrong with your machine because you won’t be able to install Spore to a new one. If I would have known most Electronic Arts DRM restrictions for Spore, I never would have purchased it and I may have gone as far as joining the another 500,000 so-called pirates visiting a free game downloads site to download a DRM-less version.

Some folks say that a company should be allowed to protect their copyrighted products, and I agree as daylong as they don’t take the rights away from the new owners, the grouping who have purchased those copyrighted products. I want to first say that I don’t necessarily dislike the idea of copyright endorsement but I do dislike the way DRM is being abused by the companies. When a person buys a copyrighted product, the copyright should now belong to the new owner along with the product. As far as I am concerned, when I purchase something it should be mine to do with as I please. As daylong as it does not involve harming, torturing or killing a living creature, I should have complete and total rights to do what I want with that product. Here are whatever examples of what I mean. If I were to purchase a German Shepherd dog ($800), it is mine. If I want to either delude or give my dog away to someone else, I have every correct to do so. If I buy a car ($25,000) and a week later feel same selling it or giving it away, I can because I have the every correct to do so. If I were to buy a concern ($200,000) outright for change (I wish), that concern would be completely mine to delude or even give it away if I choose. If I have complete and total rights to do what I want with my dog, my car and my house, will somebody please tell me why can I face criminal charges and punishment for doing what I want with my $79.99 game of Spore or any another video game for that matter. Heck, with EA’s new DRM restrictions imposed on my Spore video game, I can’t even install it solon than three times. In truth, Spore still belongs to Electronic Arts even though I forked out my hard earned change for the rights of ownership. Therein lies the true crime my friends. And the video game industry is wondering why solon and solon normally honest folks have turned to pirating.

Sadly, video game companies same Electronic Arts are unwittingly causing the downfall of the video game industry with their abuse of DRM restrictions. Piracy paranoia has already taken a huge bite out of the PC and Mac game industry. advert when stores same Egghead and Electronics Boutique used to be stocked wall to wall with machine games for your PC or Mac. Then they come up with all of these unjust anti-piracy rules that if you unstoppered the games packaging there will be no exchanges or refunds allowed. Are you kidding me. With all of the assorted machine configurations out there due to lack of standards within the industry, you were lucky not to run into a conflict when installing or playing the game. How many of you advert buying a $50 machine game only to have it not work when you installed it. advert how you felt when you tried to get your money backwards for a $50 game that you never even got to play only to be told by the suspicious salesman at the stores counter, Too Bad, No Refund, No Exchange Policy Here! A lot of grouping remember. That is the main reason good honest folk turned to P2P download sites for their machine games in the first place. No risk of losing their money through no fault of their own. Thus began the downfall of the video game industry for PC’s and Mac’s. Now when you go into a accumulation looking to purchase a game for your PC, all you will find is a little rack of most fifteen machine games tucked away somewhere in the backwards of a video game store.

Don’t look now, but the video game industry is following that same line of self destruction as before, and the DRM restrictions they are putting on games same Spore will be their undoing. If the fact that the Spore DRM policy has caused it to become the most pirated video game in history does not bring most changes in copyright policies, then they will be in deep trouble as an industry. I realize I am ranting but I tend to get ticked off when I am being ripped off and I am not alone here. Head over to CNet or Amazon.com to see what grouping are saying most the Spore DRM policy. The video game makers had better listen too, because they are on the line of causing their own demise with such a draconic DRM policy. Electronic Arts, the maker of Spore especially had better unstoppered up its ears, because over 500,000 grouping downloading DRM free versions of the video game from Free Game Downloads sites in only a few life makes a thunderous sound. The promulgation of Spore was supposed to be a happy day for all. Instead, EA’s punishing DRM policy may have begun the downfall of the video game industry, and that would be a sad day for everyone.