What is it that no man wants to have...

[Hümmelgümpf]

...yet no man wants to lose?
http://kotaku.com/5054175/class-action- ... -spore-drm

Whenever you find large numbers of unhappy people, you're bound to find a lawyer. In this case it's Alan Himmelfarb with KamberEdelson of Vernon, California, who has filed a class-action suit against EA over the DRM in EA's Spore. The suit, filed Monday with the Northern California District Court on behalf of plaintiff Melissa Thomas and "all consumers globally who have purchased the Spore computer game", addresses complaints that consumers are not fully aware of what exactly SecuROM does on their system, and also cites a separate program that installs on the control center of the computer and can disrupt system functions.

 

[Vaarna_Aarne]

:honourblade:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Q7FFjUpVLg

 

[deshields538]

OH YEAH indeed!

 

[bezimek]

Yes, Yes, Yes !!!

 

[WhiskeyWolf]

Yes, Yes, Yes !!!

Marcińkiewicz?

 

[Mareus]

Yay!

 

[flabbyjack]

This is win? I want some of that Spore money, but lawsuits are never the answer. Time magazine even gave Spore an article. Two, in fact(One was about creator of the Sims Will Wright)

 

[Ion Flux]

i hope they win but they wont

They just might. Sony got spanked for their rootkit stupidity and they are hardly a small-time operation.

 

[oscar]

moar p0wer to the pe0ple

 

[Shannow]

A law suit! What do I win?

Oh, and I wish them lots of luck and money. They'll need it in the US against EA.

 

[MetalCraze]

Too bad EA won't fall because they treat their customers like shit. Most of their customers are too dumb to see that EA cock up their butt.

 

[aron searle]

i hope they win but they wont

They just might. Sony got spanked for their rootkit stupidity and they are hardly a small-time operation.

Yes, but the Sony rootkit installed itself on computers if you just tried to play a CD, it did it covertly without asking permission.

You agree to install stardock.

This lawsuit will do little even if it wins, even if they do win they will just use "genericcopyprotection" programe number 2 instead of stardock.

This is one of those situations where only the customers can change the situation by voting with their wallets, hahahah etc.

 

[udm]

Too bad EA won't fall because they treat their customers like shit. Most of their customers are too dumb to see that EA cock up their butt.

Word. Most of the people I know who eagerly want to purchase RA3 don't even know about the 5-installation limit. And those who are informed about it insist they will buy it because they don't care about DRM - they already have enough spyware on their PCs, and they don't believe they'll be installing the game for more than 5 times

I guess some people don't even care for their own privacy