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Following a beserk reaction to some fairly stringent anti-piracy measures planned for the PC version of Mass Effect, BioWare’s “done a Moore” and volte-faced on several of the decision.

Players will now no longer have to keep the disc in a drive to play the game after installation and there’ll be no automatic authentication every ten days, as originally planned.

There’s a Q&A with BioWare community manager Jay Watamaniuk after the link. The game releases on May 28 in the US and June 6 in Europe.

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These are awesome. Suart Campbell’s posted up some anti-piracy ads from the 80s, revealing the lengths ELSPA used to stoop to to stop people putting Amiga games on floppy discs. It was all bobby’s on the beat and bags of chips as big as your head back then. See for yourself.