Amazon.com's reader reviews of the recent alien evolution sim Spore filled up quickly this week with protest comments from people who haven't played the game but were disputing the DRM set-up that publisher Electronic Arts had created. On Friday, all of the review scores on the Amazon.com Spore page vanished and some quickly said it was a conspiracy. However it was nothing more than a web site software glitch, according to Amazon, and within a few hours the reviews were back up and fully visable on the site.

Meanwhile an EA spokesperson has finally talked about the reasons the company put in the DRM set-up for Spore. Corporate communications rep Mariam Sughayer stated that less than 25 percent of their PC customers activate more than one copy of the game and less than one percent ask to activate more than copies. Sughayer also stated that claims of Spore installing spyware or malware on PCs are "absolutely false." She did not address the fact that only one Spore account can be used with each copy of the game, despite the manual saying it could.