Amazon as Political Pulpit
Check out the Amazon reviews for Spore, the new Will Wright game. 2,016 of the 2216 reviews gave it 1 star for the heavy-handed DRM. I use Amazon reviews heavily and I've never seen protest brought to the reviews at this scale before. Let's see if people take notice.
TorrentFreak points out the following:
DRM doesn’t stop people from pirating a game, on the contrary. It only hurts legitimate customers since the DRM is removed from the pirate version."
There are lots of philosophical reasons not to buy things with DRM. For me, the practical reason wins out. I'd rather deal with having to store music CDs and not play some potentially awesome games than deal with losing my data due to short-sighted DRM.
posted by Steve Jenson at 2:56 PM
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I think we've also seen people banding together to use Amazon reviews to speak out against Scientology. In the past, Amazon has deleted negative Scientology reviews. I wonder if Amazon will do the same for Spore, if the game's creators request the reviews deleted.
9:54 AM
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