Mon, Nov 10, 2008 | 07:51 GMT

EA sued over SecuROM

According to this GamesPolitics piece, EA’s facing a pair of class action suits of its use of copy protection system SecuROM.

The cases, filed by Pennsylvanian Richard Eldridge and Dianna Cortez of Missouri, accuse EA of “deceptive and unlawful” practices, and claim the publisher’s use of SecuROM is “immoral, unethical, oppressive [and] unscrupulous,” among much more.

Take a look. May not be pretty, but it is fairly funny.

SecuROM to be used on Red Alert 3

Far Cry 2 to use SecuROM, five installs on three PCs

PC Alone in the Dark uses SecuROM online protection

2 comments

Esha
10/11/08, 10:07 am

They’re right on every count other than unlawful, as there are holes that EA’s lawyers can wriggle through.

At the moment, EA is undergoing a transitional phase from the company that they were to something better. Hitting them in this phase could be a good thing, or possibly disastrous. Personally, I’m hoping they drop their more virulent forms of DRM on their march towards doing better for the games industry than they had previously. DRM is fairly unethical as a practice, and the more of the games indsutry that realises that, the better.

MesserWolf
10/11/08, 10:48 am

I morally support these class actions