There is a determined campaign over at amazon.com which is marking down the new EA game Spore - and when I mean marking it down I mean one star - in a protest at the use of DRM and the fact that you are limited to 3 installs without contacting EA to explain what is happening (and frankly the challenge to the hackers to break that particular obstacle will be greater).
Ignoring the fact that a child might well install the software without understanding the finer points of DRM (& that is precisely what has happened in this house), there are serious allegations that Amazon(.co.uk not .com) has been censoring poor reviews ( here and here ).
If this is true then Amazon's stupidity is beyond belief. If the reviews are negative - and unless they are defamatory then they should stay - then the further damage that Amazon will incur by removing them will be far greater than letting them stay. IF it's true that Amazon are censoring messages then I am pretty certain that they will be bitten seriously in the arse. The Internet has traditionally by-passed censorship.
Update
My son has pointed out that Take 2 (another games manufacturer) had similar issues with DRM and the game Bioshock. Take 2 gave in ....
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