Yeah. Enlighten us, please ;) I guess we are facing a cultural issue here. No system will ever be good enough. Games are more sensitive because they are targeted to a market segment that is highly subversive in nature. Perhaps they should opensource these kind of games and dedicate themselves to enterprise / collaboration BI simulation software ( which is not a bad idea at all ). Opensource the platform! create open, distributed games meshed with social applications! And make money from enterprise software built on top. Humm.. probably not a new idea. - Aldo Bucchi from FriendFeed MT Plugin

Or the other takeaway from this (and probably most important) is that DRM does NOT work. It just doesn't. It never has and it never will. - Alex Scoble

The problem with the pirated versions (as far as I can tell) is that you can't connect to the online community. I DLd Spore to see if it will work on my machine and if it does I will buy. They deserve my money for making a good game, DRM or not. Cause, really I don't think the DRM is an issue. - Mathew™ one of a kind

Certainly. The online account... why does it have DRM in the first place then? They must have predicted that it was going to be removed, and only harm their image. - Aldo Bucchi from FriendFeed MT Plugin