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Levine got threats over BioShock PC DRM

We've already seen how an angry mob of DRM haters can affect the readers score of a game like Spore but a few of these folks take their anti-copyright protection cause way too far. A huge example of this was revealed in a chat with 2K Boston head Ken Levine at Computer and Video Games.

Levine revealed that when the PC version of their acclaimed first person shooter BioShock was released last year, many people were very upset about the DRM set up which at the time only allowed a few installs of the game and a requirement for an Internet connection to activate the title. Levine states, "When we had the copy protection issues come out, I was out there talking about the product, I didn't run away from that. And frankly I got some nasty f****** threats. I think it's important that somebody takes responsibility, and at the end of the day my job as creative director is to sort of be the arbiter of taste. With great power comes great responsibility right?" 2K Games later buckled under pressure and extended the amount of installs for BioShock and earlier this year activation and install limits were elimiated compltely from the game.

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