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[B]Coelocanth[/B] the war criminal statement was from [B]instant[/B], sorry I got the two posts mixed up. Now for the rest of the statements on the invasion of privacy from this form of DRM, I still await further technical analysis. We are on the internet and anyone can make statements that are untrue and it takes a bit more to make me start a crusade on the evil or good of a product. In my house we have several PCs and we have had and still have games that have this form of DRM and man

Coelocanth - Could you please give us a link to this persons finding? To create a software and/or hardware key depends on quite a few factors and did this person verify this multiple times or was it triggered by something else? I would find it hard to swallow that its reading the product key, it is probably working from some other key that the OS creates which is based in part from that product key. Since OS has a different key that key would of course be different. Assuming it is reading your

Boycotting EA has so far done what? Is DRM evil, will you not buying it make any difference? Come on now, to be surprised by EA and DRM is like saying "I put my hand in the fire...and I got burned." Stardock has the right model, but so far it is the Tucker of this electronic world. A bit to far ahead and in the shadow of giants. Maybe EA will return to its roots and make good games, but then I am sure that will be right after Hell has frozen over. Maxis was purchased by EA and like any

Wow, when did playing games on a PC or otherwise become a cult? Nothing is every really the BEST of anything, they all do things well or poorly. The whole attempt to play a game is to have fun. Now when you try to say best of or anything else you are missing the entire point - Was this game fun? Starcraft 2 will probably be a fun game for many and seeing from the above comments more fodder for some holy quest to prove their game is better. Whatever, you bought the game and you played it

Why are people even thinking this is in ANYWAY important? Do schools even do a good job at the basics? Well come on now, where are the quotes and charts saying that schools in the US or anywhere else are doing such a bang up job with what they have to teach that they can be force to teach this? Education in the US is hampered by more BS and other whiz bang plans that result in little if any education, and yet you want this system to try to bring this to the children? Scan the papers EVE

I have a question that no one seems to be asking, rentals. Game devs seem to love the consoles, but how many sales for consoles are real sales to your market? How many people actualy own those games? If everyone bought games, why is there such a booming business in renting games for consoles? If game devs just want the sales (which it seems they do, damn the customer or not, someone bought it right?) why don't they allow rentals of PC software? Arrgh you say piracy, why now is it a bigg

I agree with many of the posts here on piracy, but I see there is a trend to blame the lack of standards as an issue. Should any developer assume his target users have X amount of hardware? If you look at the polls that Valve has, you have an interesting cross section of hardware. What does a developer code to? This is a big factor for many developers as they seem to go for the ultra elite customer and assume everyone is willing to spend $X upgrading to get the best experience (example

If piracy is killing gaming, why do we still have games for the PC? Let us take a trip back in the way back machine. In the early days games were on cartridges and diskettes. Now back then if you got the disk version you had to find some word or phrase in the manual to unlock and start the game. The best ones were the tiny sheets of paper that were on difficult to copy paper that often finding the unlock code was the hardest part of the game. But gaming on the PC thrived and continued.