[ihuman]

People have been able to play if offline for a limited time. This just makes it look worse for EA's claims.

http://kotaku.com/5990165/my-simcity-city-thrived-offline-fo...

[nwh]

You can apparently play for even longer if you change your computers clock.

[seanp2k2]

And now knowing this, we'll have a working fake DRM server in 3...2....1...

(because I'm sure that crackers took until now to figure out that it only needed the EA server for saved game storage and DRM verification)