An interesting article at opendemocracy blog http://www.opendemocracy.net/blog/evgeny-morozov/2008/09/19/spore-digital-rights-and-the-future-of-gaming on the DRM issue and gaming particularly spore.
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Spore - "the most hotly anticipatedcomputer game of the year" according to CNN - has quickly become the mostcontroversial game of the year and, quite likely, of the whole decade.