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News of what appears to be a distributed, spontaneous action against the new video game "Spore" because of the DRM included with the game has been spreading around the web since yesterday (when I first heard about it from Fred Benson of Free Culture) , and the action seems to be growing.

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Normally I couldn't care less about ecommercial megasite redesigns, but Amazon has led quite a few innovations in the past, and I think is worth paying attention to (I have seen the site used as an case study in several usability & design books). Anyway, the page layout has changed very significantly - there is a brief summary of the changes available.

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