MTV Multiplayer has a statement from EA Games president Frank Gibeau about the ongoing controversy over the digital rights management in Spore, learning EA plans to increase the number of activations allowed for each game from three to five, saying "We’re willing to evolve our policy to accommodate our consumers. But we’re hoping that everyone understands that DRM policy is essential to the economic structure we use to fund our games and as well as to the rights of people who create them." Much of the statement is further justification for their stance, but he then relents, showing a newfound appreciation that the DRM is a problem for legitimate customers: "But we’ve received complaints from a lot of customers who we recognize and respect. And while it’s easy to discount the noise from those who only want to post or transfer thousands of copies of the game on the Internet, I believe we need to adapt our policy to accommodate our legitimate consumers." He says in addition to upping the activation limit to five, they will continue to offer channels where additional authorizations can be requested, and will expedite development of a tool that can de-authorize an installation, saying "When this system goes online, it will effectively give players direct control to manage their authorizations between an unlimited number of machines."