Spore, EA's big DRM mistake

For anyone that hasn't pirated Spore yet (all 10 of you) it's time to cough up the bandwidth, and not just because it's a great game, but because we as a community need to continue to send EA a message. EA implemented it's new DRM (Digital rights management) to "Prevent the game from being pirated on the internet." Well it obviously didn't work very well as their was a reloaded release several days before it hit stores. What this DRM does is limit how many times you can activate your copy of spore on your computer(s) much like Bio shock did. What this means is if you wanted to put Spore on your laptop, home computer, work computer, you'll be fine but if you ever get a new laptop home or work computer, your outta luck becuase it only lets 3 computers activate it. Well that seems like something called rentware, you don't really own it, but you get to use it for a peroid of time. EA's DRM has as expected generated nothing but outrage in the online community, as it set a record low user review score at en.amazon. EA demanded that amazon take the reviews down, which they reluctantly did. EA's DRM has crippled spore's sales, and what does EA do to respond? Of course they blaim piracy. But wait....DRM is supposed to stop piracy, So how has it negatively affected sales? The answer, it hasnt. It very easy to blaim piracy becuase most people don't compeltely understand the core issue, and EA distorting the facts doesn't help. EA like to throw out "buzz words" to the general public, and not emphasize the details, becuase if they did, EA's stock would drop faster than Dial-up services (not really but you get the point). The news cast covering the story first throws out what DRM is, and then simply follow up by saying "piracy has caused EA's new game spore to sale dramtically less copies than expeted. Well it's not hard to guess, EA thew money at this game by the truckload, whats a bit of media distoration gonnea cost compared to the devlopment. That being said, as a Pirate your almost oblgated to get this one, for free of course, compliments of reloaded, who has kindly included a crack and keygen.
As for the actual game, its quite an enjoyable experience.

You start as a single cell organism, in the ocean fighting to survive. To do so, you need to evolve and collect DNA, to give your creature a leg up on the competition. This can be achieved by adding horns, posion or even water jets to your organsim. From therem you make you way to land, and keep evolving until you become of near human (or some cases greater) intellegence. This phase of the game really starts to show where it shines, and thats in the creature creation lab. Your given a massive customazation lab, where you can shape and mold your very own spiecies. This is done very well, as it's so easy anyone can do it, but still create very cool looking and unique creatures. Your creature has choices while in the primal stages onm land, to hunt other creatures to extintction or turn them into socail allies, to further augument their DNA arsenal. After the creature stage has hit it's last stage you'll need to finalize your creature's looks, becuase once they become tribesmens, theirs no turning back.

From there you advance your creature not as in idivusal, but as a race conquering or allying other creatures across your starting contintent. Once that's done your off to being civilized where even more customization comes into play. You'll need to build your own air, land, and sea vechicles, along with a variety of differnet building types, and conquer every city, all of which now belong to your race, as all other seintent races have been elimated by your evolutionary prowlness. Once you have achieved global hegemony, its off to space to conquer the galxay. You quickly discover an abundance of alien life, which you need to ally or conquer depending on your play type. You will get better weapons for your ship, along with the ability to terrafrom planets, where you makeplanets mroe inhabitable, and profitable, until you have eventually ranked to the supreme commander of the universe
Spore is a very enjoyable game, which is doubled by the good reason to pirate it. Everyone should add this one to their collection, even if they have no intention of even installing.