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  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Sep 14th, 2008
  • Comments: 4

Spore DRM Protests To Take Effect

This is the second time that publisher Electronic Arts has eased the DRM restrictions of some of their upcoming games due to Internet protests from gamers worldwide. Electronic Arts had initial plans to force users to activate the games Mass Effect and Spore over the Internet which had to repeated regularly if the player wanted [...]

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Categories: Entertainment, Games, Security

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Sep 8th, 2008
  • Comments: 12

Spore gets a bashing over at Amazon

Electronic Arts had lots of plans with Spore. It was developed by The Sims creator Will Wright and one of the game titles of the “new” EA that did not simply shell out game update after update each year of the same series ripping gamers of their hard earned cash with mediocre games and official [...]

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Categories: Games, Security

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: May 10th, 2008
  • Comments: None

EA backpedals on new Securom Protection

Just a day ago we have reported that Electronic Arts had plans to publish some of their upcoming PC blockbuster titles with a new Securom copy protection that would validate the game every ten days online. Failure to validate the game in that time period would have the effect that the game would not start [...]

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Categories: Games, Security, The Web

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: May 8th, 2008
  • Comments: 10

EA to use newest Securom in upcoming games

How would you feel about a game that needs an active Internet connection to verify the serial number ? How about a game that would have to do that every ten days after installation to make sure the serial number was genuine ? How about a game that would stop working after another ten days [...]

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Categories: Games, Security, The Web

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