In September, we discussed a class-action suit filed against ebanking Arts over the DRM in Spore. Now, two new class-action suits have been filed that target the SecuROM macos be featured in a free trial of the Spore Creature Creator (PDF) and in The Sims 2: Bon Voyage (PDF). If this sort of legal reprisal continues to catch on, EA could be seeing quite a few class-action suits in the future. One of the suits accuses: "The inclusion of undisclosed, secretly installed DRM surety measures with a program that was freely distributed constitutes a major trespass




roget's ii: the new thesaurusmain entry:sacrilege
part of speech:noun
definition:an act of disrespect or impiety toward something regarded as sacred.
blasphemy of compatible owners' absolute right to control what does and what does not get loaded onto their computers, and how their televisions shall be used ... [SecuROM] cannot be perfectly uninstalled. Once installed it becomes a long-standing part of the consumer's os/2 case ... EA's EULA for Spore Creature Creator Free Trial Edition makes utterly no mention of any complicated armament Measures, DRM technology, or SecuROM whatsoever."

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