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Mass Effect DRM goes too far

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Its not about money. its about power!

And is that going to help stop piracy? no! its going to stop sales! (at least prevent people with half a brain buying games like these).

Honestly, attitudes like this put me off even downloading hacked torrent versions of the games. Do you think I’ll buy one? (and i actually like buying games).
posted by : Herb, 07 May 2008

If I Buy Something, Do I Own It?

It seems like there is an increasingly concerted effort among Big Content to make sure the answer is "no".

We've already seen the debacle over the shutdown of MSN Music, which is just the latest in a long line of DRM'd services to leave their customers in the lurch. Will people learn the lesson and stay from crap like this?
posted by : Lawrence D'Oliveiro, 07 February 2008

N/A

"Just to re-iterate that point, you will need to re-activate your copy with the publisher every 10 days. Forever."

Spinning it a tad don’t you think? I don’t like this ridicules copy protection method either, but Bioware made it pretty clear that a removal patch will be released one day.
posted by : Annoyeddragon, 07 February 2008

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