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EA Releases DRM License Deactivation Tool

Posted by Soulskill on from the baby-steps dept.

Dr_Barnowl writes "Electronic Arts has posted a SecuROM de-authorization management tool. Once downloaded, the tool will search your drives for EA games infested with the draconian online DRM system, and help you download their respective individual de-activation tools. This isn't a perfect solution, since it's still possible to run out of activations in the event of hardware failure or other source of data loss, but since the announcement that this particular DRM system will be dropped for The Sims 3 , it would seem that EA has had a minor epiphany about DRM." I'm sure EA's hand was forced in part by the FTC's recent warning against deceptive DRM practices. Hal Halpin of the Entertainment Consumers Association commented further on the issue, suggesting to developers that such measures need to be displayed on game boxes, and that standardization of EULAs could be next on the list.

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  1. Hm... by grub · · Score: 5, Funny


    Once downloaded, the tool will search your drives for EA games infested with the draconian online DRM system

    I bet that's not a quote from EA's documentation.

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  2. Cool... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    We can have congress pass legislation that they didn't read to fix the problem of EULAs that nobody reads.

    1. Re:Cool... by commodore64_love · · Score: 5, Funny

      This isn't funny.

      It's sad.

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