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A lawsuit has been filed against EA over a mechanism built in their game Spore called SecuROM DRM. The suit is directly aimed at EA’s decision according to which they were to use SecuROM for anti-piracy reasons. According to Adrian Kingsley, the case which was filed by Melissa Thomson has some bogus claims and so it didn’t stand any chance. You can read out the law suit here.
Check out some of the claims as pointed out by Adrian:
Once installed, it [SecuROM] become a permanent part of the consumer’s software portfolio. Even if the consumer uninstalls Spore, and entirely deletes it from their computer, SecuROM remains a fixture in their computer unless and until the consumer completely wipes their hard drive through reformatting or replacement of the drive.
SecuROM can be removed with the help of an uninstaller present at their site.
On the other hand some valid points are like EA is not clear on their policy of SecuROM installed by Spore on PC and they also don’t provide any help or advice to people who want to get rid of the DRM system. This would be interesting now, but it certainly seems that the suit is not going much far. Lets see if there is any twist in the story in the coming days.
I think you’ll find that the uninstaller provided by EA hasn’t worked for about the last two EPs and it doesn’t remove Securom properly. Which is why people find themselves having to do things like wipe their harddrive. You will also find many, many stories about the damage this DRM does at http://reclaimyourgame.com/
Regards
Saraswati