Spore & Piracy: EA, ESA, Analysts Weigh In

[So, Leigh Alexander did a good job of sorting out this contri-Spore-cial story on big sister site Gamasutra, and myself and Chris Remo gave it a final edit for spice, thanks to Remo’s Penny-Arcade editorial on a similar subject.]
Embattled over the SecuROM digital rights management controversy regarding Spore, Electronic Arts is now challenging assertions that the copy protection is resulting in sales losses.
EA recently revealed that it has sold 1 million units of Spore since launch. At the same time, TorrentFreak, a weblog dedicated to aggregating news for the BitTorrent P2P protocol, is claiming that Spore has been downloaded 500,000 times on BitTorrent alone, saying it may become “the most pirated game ever.”
The editors at TorrentFreak suggest, “The idea behind DRM is that it will stop people from pirating the game, but in reality, it often has the opposite effect.”
In addition, researcher Big Champagne told Forbes […]

Original post by editors@gamesetwatch.com (Simon Carless) and software by Elliott Back