Big Brother EA Spying on You?

[Rambo]

Re: Big Brother EA Spying on You?

Get edumacated..

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Origin-EULA-PC-Gaming-Glorified-Spyware-DRM,13285.html

http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?589904-EA-Origin-is-glorified-spyware/page18

[Vreki]

Re: Big Brother EA Spying on You?

I saw another thread on another forum in which a user checked what files Origin accesses. It apparently accesses your registry and your ProgramData folder.

Thats kind of like saying that it reads from disk. Of course it access the registry and ProgramData, it is where applications store vital info, including that relating to Origin and and its associated games.

Get edumacated..

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Origin-EULA-PC-Gaming-Glorified-Spyware-DRM,13285.html

http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?...spyware/page18

All these threads just crosslink to each other, and ultimately consists of nothing but wild guesses as to what EA might do based on the EULA. But so far nobody has caught them actually doing anything.

We all know that EA is a bunch of evil, soulless lawyers (triple redundancy, extra score), but can we give it a rest until they have committed the crime? Corpus Delicti and all that.

[Anarchy1]

Re: Big Brother EA Spying on You?

Thats kind of like saying that it reads from disk. Of course it access the registry and ProgramData, it is where applications store vital info, including that relating to Origin and and its associated games.

Yeah I know. I thought it could clear up at least some confusion on what Origin does. And note that those are the only things it accesses.

[Rambo]

Re: Big Brother EA Spying on You?

They send info to third party companies, so god knows who is going to be inside your computer... prob America goverment looking to fabricate more terrorist lol.

All another step closer to a barcode on the back of your head

[RangerXML]

Re: Big Brother EA Spying on You?

Sigh, remember the congress bringing up that terrorist were using BF2 to train. Perhaps this is some kind of under the table deal EA worked out with the US gov't. All joking aside, I still run Origin on launch and haven't taken any actions to block any traffic, but the EA TOS are a big FU to the users and have been for as long as I remember (like with the boosters and digital content originally having an expiration date when they first came out during BF2 and 2142).

[CptainCrunch]

Re: Big Brother EA Spying on You?

That could be. Maybe the government is doing something.

Of course I still think Google is part of the defunct FBI Carnavore project.

Crunch

[RangerXML]

Re: Big Brother EA Spying on You?

Looks like EA officially edited its TOS, updated some places and not all to make it less evil. And of course since I've been reading various news sites all morning long I can't find the article anymore.

[Stev0esque]

Re: Big Brother EA Spying on You?

Looks like EA officially edited its TOS, updated some places and not all to make it less evil. And of course since I've been reading various news sites all morning long I can't find the article anymore.

Yeah, I saw that too. People still aren't buying it though.

[Rambo]

Re: Big Brother EA Spying on You?

The update is a massive difference in words lol,they went from nazi to care bears haha.. But we all know the words is the only thing they changed.

I would say there first Eula was a self slap in the face and more like the true story to what happens in the games industry.

http://www.battlefieldlog.com/2011/08/ea-updates-origin-eula-following.html

http://eacom.s3.amazonaws.com/EULA_Origin_8.24.11.pdf