Good about time people wise up to the problems of DRM on software

Spore Backlash

Culture Buzz Spore fans are not happy with the game’s anti-piracy DRM, so they’ve taken their protest to Amazon.

About time people wake up to the so called anti-piracy cartels who try to tell people how and what should be installed on their own systems. Things like antivirus, anti-malware, or process explorers utilities also know as security programs are deemed bad programs by the hacks. Usually to install the crippling DRM schemes you need to shut them off, yes that's always best to do. Shut down your AV's, your firewalls so you get infected or turned into a botnode, don't worry about what is running on your system we know whats best for you. Now enjoy your treat and jump through the hoops to enjoy your legitimately purchased software. Remember use this serial number, verify it every 10 days and oh on top of it keep the cd/dvd in your drive to run it since we can't be certain the first 2 steps work.

I was going to buy the game but with the "copy protection" on it and all future EA titles I'm skipping it any any others. But it's really not about copy protection as legitimate users are the ones who get the shaft, it's all about your ability to resell the program once you bore of it. What happens if say 5-6 years down the line you decide to reinstall the software and had used up your limit of installs? Wait EA is out of business, somehow, then what do you do? Unlike how I can go back and install Sims without a problem still or any of the other old software I own without incident.

I've been using computers for 20 years and there is no way I'd disable any security software even while running a hardware firewall with always on connections nowadays. Seriously just because some "security" company foists a protection scheme onto software publishers legitimate users are just expected to rollover because a mechanism is faulty by design? A Steam or MMO type of login is a better alternative than to have various hidden files and callhome routines unknowningly installed onto your system.