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Originally Posted by ScalyFreak
To go back to previous examples from the video game world... companies who skip the DRM tend to do well. At the very least, intrusive DRM has been detrimental to sales there. Google "Spore DRM" if you want a good example.
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While it's true that particularly intrusive DRM may hurt sales (although Spore's failure was overdetermined), the most successful companies do use DRM. I looked at the 50 most popular games of 2010 and they were all DRM'd and from major companies.