piracy

EA has decided to relax its DRM on Spore. They are offering a patch to owners of the game that will unchain the users from the strict DRM.
EA came under fire after Spore was released with oppressive DRM and was the poster child for people that oppose it. The blogoshpere has totally ripped them apart. [...]

Well of course we know part of the answer to why people don’t buy CDs anymore would be because they have been downloading music. Sure, that is part of it, but haven’t you ever heard somebody buying a CD say “I just wanted to have the actual CD.” There certainly is something different about owning [...]

I’m very interested in some of the comments since I posted File Sharing is Not to Blame for Falling Album Sales. The one that really caught my attention was the comment by StevioB.
“The industry tries to guilt people out of file sharing (”You wouldn’t steal a car… You wouldn’t steal a purse…”) How guilty do [...]