Two more cases against the EA DRM
One in Pennsylvania and one in Missouri, also in the United States. Two new legal action against Electronic Arts due to digital rights management (DRM), after that started last September and on the anti-piracy content in Spore.
The case in Pennsylvania concerning the Spore Creature Creator, freely distributed by Electronic Arts to allow users to begin producing their own creatures before the release of the full version of Spore. Richard Eldridge, in this case, complained that the anti-piracy software is installed without permission.
“The inclusion of systems for digital rights management by strangers in freely distributed software is a violation of the right to control your machine,” we read in the summons. It points out, as had happened in the case on Spore, the DRM software can not be uninstalled after installing unauthorized.
The second case, that of Missouri, is the plaintiff Dianna Cortez and the video game The Sims 2: Bon Voyage, one of the many expansions of the family management of Electronic Arts. The plaintiff would have wanted to burn the contents of the CD Bon Voyage but finds discs perfectly empty. This will also prevent access to external storage devices like USB sticks and iPods. Only the formatting of the hard disk enabled it to get rid of Securom.
