Spore (game)

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Spore is a life simulation real-time strategy god game developed by Maxis and published by Electronic Arts in 2008 for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X.

Spore (game)

Basic Information
Release Year	2008
Product Type	Video Games
In Production	No
Official Website	https://www.spore.com/

Digital Rights Management

Spore released on PC with an always-online SecuROM DRM, requiring people to have an internet connection at all times despite Spore being a largely single-player experience. While this modified DRM was implemented to prevent piracy, it had the opposite effect as hundreds of thousands flocked to peer to peer torrenting sites like BitTorrent to illegally download the game. Spore is 2008's most pirated game with a recorded 500,000+ downloads on BitTorrent, though this number is estimated to have risen to be in the millions.

Lawsuit

Three days after EA apologized for Spore's DRM Controversy and increased the game's installation activation restrictions from 3 computers to 5, a lawsuit would be brought against the company for quietly installing the SecuROM DRM onto the computers of anyone who had installed Spore without their explicit knowledge and without an easy removal process.