And you thought the Spore DRM Issue was finally at an end, eh? Hardly, since a bunch of Spore owners have banded together and have filed a class-action lawsuit against the game’s publisher, Electronic Arts.
The lawsuit claims that the DRM program, SecuROM, actually interferes with the standard operation of the computer’s operating system. For those of you who don’t know what an OS is, I’ll translate: It breaks Windows (or OS X, whatever). The suit claims that the program is installed without the permission of the user, and that once the program is installed it cannot be removed — even if the user uninstalls Spore.
From the Courthouse News Service:
Consumers are not warned about the program, which is installed without notice and cannot be uninstalled, even if the uninstall Spore, the complaint states. The secret SecuROM program is “secretly installed to the command and control center of the computer (Ring 0, or the Kernel), and surreptitiously operated, overseeing function and operation on the computer, preventing the computer from operating under certain circumstances and/or disrupting hardware operations,” the complaint states.
I usually have an opinion about these kinds of things. But then I remember that I refused to buy Spore until the DRM complaints have been dealt with, so rock on with the lawsuit.
EA Sued Over Spore DRM