More EA/SecuROM Lawsuits

GamePolitics reports on two different class-action lawsuits filed against Electronic Arts last month in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California over EA's use of SecuROM digital rights management. One suit (Adobe Acrobat-format) was filed by Richard Eldridge of Pennsylvania over the inclusion of SecuROM in the Spore Creature Creator Free Trial Edition, complaining SecuROM cannot be completely uninstalled, and that the EULA for the product contained no warnings about DRM. The other suit (Adobe Acrobat-format) is from Dianna Cortez of Missouri, a player of The Sims who claims SecuROM caused problems that could not be fixed without reformatting her system, accusing EA of "unfair business practices." These are the second and third such legal action of which we've heard, as a federal lawsuit filed in September also complained of the stealthy manner in which SecuROM is installed.
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???? Currently Projekt (maker's of Witcher) are the BEST developers and organization in the gaming industry....

Yeah, and I'm sure that's right.

I was trying to get at the point that there were a few games I would have liked to buy but didn't because I couldn't remember which games had what kind of draconian bullshit DRM.

Out of the titles I listed I really wanted to grab the Witcher, but I knew that the first one was pretty light on the DRM but couldn't remember if the Expanded Edition was all fucked up or not.

And on top of that, my deciding factor for the Witcher didn't involve DRM, it was remembering that I'd read that they censored the NA version for the 'prudish' Americans. So I'll buy it online and have it shipped. I don't see why Canadians should get censored shit just because the Americans can't handle a little bit of T&A.

As to the whole point, I'm standing in Walmart with money in my pocket and want to buy a game. Why should I have to piss around trying to remember which game has the worst DRM?

I don't.

I didn't.

I bought a super violent movie and was quite happy with it.

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