IceDiver writes "I used to be an avid PC gamer. However, I have only bought 1 game in the last 18 months because I am sick and tired of the problems caused by the various intrusive, and at intervals damaging DRM schemes game publishers insist on forcing upon their customers. Once burned, twice shy! The EA announcement that approaching releases will include SecuROM, along with verification requirements and major restrictions on installations left me wondering which anew released or in store games (particularly major titles) are being released without DRM? Are there any? How has DRM artificial your game purchasing? Will EA be negatively artificial by their DRM decision?" The ongoing DRM controversy was stirred by the recent launch of Spore. We discussed the public outcry from Amazon's reviews (which were later taken down and then re-posted). EA's operation to the outcry was to say that only one percent of budgeting affairs tried to prompt the game more than three times, which is the limit without help from their client service. Meanwhile, their efforts to find a "balance" between preventing piracy and not hampering legal users may not have been as successful as they hoped. as it should be to Forbes, a P2P delving firm found that illegal copies of Spore had been downloaded over 170,000 times already. So, is it time to create a whitelist for game publishers and developers?

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