EA Faces lawsuit over Spore DRM

[Avatar-Ang]

Spore DRM is now cause for a class action lawsuit against EA. From Gamepolitics.com - "

Electronic Arts, a leading maker of computer games, defrauds consumers through its "Spore" game, which "completely wipes their hard drive" and replaces it with an undisclosed program that prevents the computer from operating under some circumstances and disrupts hardware operations, a class action claims in Federal Court.



The class claims that "Spore," a virtual reality simulation game, contains "a second, undisclosed program" called SecuROM, a "form of Digital Rights Management (DRM) for computer games."



Consumers are not warned about the program, which is installed without notice and cannot be uninstalled, even if the uninstall Spore, the complaint states. The secret SecuROM program is "secretly installed to the command and control center of the computer (Ring 0, or the Kernel), and surreptitiously operated, overseeing function and operation on the computer, preventing the computer from operating under certain circumstances and/or disrupting hardware operations," the complaint states."

http://www.gamepolitics.com/2008/09/24/ ... -spore-drm

[Gr|m]

i hope EA loses

[kaden]

"completely wipes your hard drive"?

don't they mean.. you have to "completely wipe your hard drive" to get rid of it?

typical press statements.

[joe]

class action lawsuits are worthless and stupid. when you have to split up any judgement 3 million ways it becomes a waste of time

[cold_blade]

class action lawsuits are worthless and stupid. when you have to split up any judgement 3 million ways it becomes a waste of time

Even so, "piracy protection" is bad news... it's generally rated more feared than viruses and malware to computer people, we can't remove it and we can't play the awesome super games they come on...

[edit]

I broke that rule with Spore, Mass Effect, and Bioshock...

[Rat-morningstar]

wait, are they serious about this? secuROM controlls your computer?
well then, ban every game from the last, what, 2 years?

bloody idiots

[kaden]

What's the best result that's gonna come of this?

"OH. They'll have to place a sticker on the game notifying buyers that it contains this piracy protection program." And, pay court fees.

[Rat-morningstar]

bloody idiots

[Nightmare]

I would never buy anything from EA again if they didn't make such awesome games.

[kaden]

EA doesn't make awesome games. They just publish them.