"That's just not how it works. You don't own the software, you own a license to use it."
Dude, you actually bought into that? Man-oh-man. A shrinkwrapped EULA which you can't see/read/agree/disagree with until you're actually installing the software has been ruled unenforcable by the courts in the US. Bnetd vs. Blizzard will probably bear that out...again.
Anyway: as soon as enough people beleive what you said to be true, it will be, facts be damned. Even though law states that any rights the law grants you cannot be signed away in a EULA (like the old chestnut of putting 'by reading this, you owe us $20.000' in a EULA).
And appart from that, common law (and common sense) tell me that I bought a disc with information on it. How I then use that information does not concern anyone, unless I start causing damage.
EA are just fucking with the one and only group which makes an multiplayer online game feasable. No public servers means that the only servers running will have to be bought by EA/DICE...and they just can't afford that.
So I predict that a few months down the line, BF2 will be marginalised with just as many players as Quake 1 has right now. Well, maybe not that bad, but you get what I mean.