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EA/SecuROM going to court over Spore DRM
Shakey1245 \| 10:30 AM on 09.27.2008	3 comments

A class action lawsuit has been brought against EA and secuROM by a Mellisa Thomas, a resident of California, with regards to it's unsignposted use of DRM in Spore and the harm it does to the PC's of people who have installed it to they're hard-drive.

The case is outlined in a 37 page PDF file which details not just the lack of a heads up that you will be installing the DRM but also the complaints brought forward by the many many people who put reviews up on Amazon.com warning against installing the game bcause of it eating up memory and disabling essencial funtions like firewalls and anti-virus sfotware.

A succesful case against EA and SecuROM could prove expensive should other people effected by this choose to take simlar action.

Could this be the deatn knell of this whole farical DRM situation?

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3 comments | showing # 1 to 3

the GAMEGOBLIN

I doubt it'll hold

LsTr Of SmG

We can only hope so. It would, after all, be a victory for common sense. A rare thing indeed these days.

(May I also note my appreciation for your 'Mr Flibble' avatar.)

PhazonYoshi

That avatar is a work of genius.

I do so hope drm is shot dead :(

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Hello folks, first off thanks for reading mah blog. I hope it was fun, informative and educational or at the very least a series of words with badly photoshoped pictures.

My real name is Ian, although Shakey is a more commonly used nickname and thus my gamertag/internet name. I'm from Liverpool in Britain and have been playing games since the heady days of the Commodore64.

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