EA’s DRM spyware on the long-awaited game Spore turns out to have an added side-effect: if you live in a household with multiple players, you all have to share the same account. The game’s manual says otherwise, but after repeated queries on the EA forum, a company spokesperson confirmed this. That’s right—if you’re in a household with several potential Spore players, and you want each of them to have their own account, you will have to buy multiple copies of the game.
Walmart Says You Can't Scan That 1925 Family Portrait, Because Copyright Lasts Forever
By August 12, 2008
If you combine a mindless and petty tyrant with Walmart’s draconian photo rights policies, you get a story like the one Boingboing reported today, where a woman in Florida was told she couldn’t scan an 80-year-old portrait of her dead grandmother, because its copyright is surely held by the studio that took it—and copyrights last forever.
Eyewitness Report on Airplane Liquid Restrictions
By August 10, 2006
Brooke went to a real live airport this morning and witnessed the shampoo and Dasani blockade first-hand.
