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EA Hit By Class-Action Suit Over Spore DRM

Posted by Soulskill on from the was-it-worth-the-hassle? dept.

The ever-growing unrest caused by the DRM involved with EA's launch of Spore came to a head on Monday. A woman named Melissa Thomas filed a class-action lawsuit against EA for their inclusion of the SecuROM copy-protection software with Spore. This comes after protests of the game's DRM ranged from a bombardment of poor Amazon reviews to in-game designs decrying EA and its policies. Some of those policies were eased, but EA has also threatened to ban players for even discussing SecuROM on their forums. The court documents (PDF) allege: "What purchasers are not told is that, included in the purchase, installation, and operation of Spore is a second, undisclosed program. The name of the second program is SecuROM ... Consumers are given no control, rights, or options over SecuROM. ... Electronic Arts intentionally did not disclose to any such purchasers that the Spore game disk also possessed a second, hidden program which secretly installed to the command and control center of the computer."

4 of 538 comments (clear)

  1. About time by krovisser · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    If It didn't have the DRM, I would have bought it instead of pirated it. Although, I am somewhat considering purchasing it. Maybe when it goes down to $30 instead of 9 thousand.

  2. Fuck you mods, APPLE let's you return software by QZTR · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    There was no troll there

    and Apple let's you return opened software for a refund

    http://store.apple.com/Catalog/US/Images/salespolicies.html

    Note that you may return software after rejecting the licensing terms, provided the software is not installed on a computer. However, if your software includes a license that you can read before you break the seal or sticker on the software media packaging, you may not return the software once you break the software media packaging seal or sticker.

    How dare you assholes mod that down when there wasn't even anything remotely realted to a troll.

    You're wrong mods, eat it.

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    To quote LongNoi "QZTR was right and won't leave me alone because I called him a moron when I was wrong" FYS
  3. Fuck you too mod by QZTR · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Since when it is a troll to expect people to actually research what they're buying instead of bitching about it a suing later?

    And before you bust out your "he's right, but I'll mod him down anyway stick" that's exactly what this story is about.

    How stupid do you look modding someone troll for telling the truth...

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    To quote LongNoi "QZTR was right and won't leave me alone because I called him a moron when I was wrong" FYS
  4. Apple is irrelevant, and you're a fucktard by Uberbah · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Apple only sells games that work on Apple hardware, and that's a small percentage of the market. So they accept returns, good on Apple. But that says nothing about GameStop, EB Games, Best Buy, Wal-Mart, etc etc.