EA Data Logging - Ambitions & Patch
Anach:
Every one of you probably posts more information on public forums than EA could ever get from its Sims 3 Data logging. You should ask yourself, what is Pescado doing with all this information. Maybe building an AI simulacrum army which with Google's help will TAKE OVER THE WORLD!
Drakron:
Quote from: Tingeling on 2010 June 02, 04:18:34
So, it is basically Securom only semi-visible?
No, SecuROM is modular and at base its just a normal "disk check" but it can have online activation and also restriction on the number of activations (meaning the number of times it can be installed).
This is very much different, its what FUCKING STEAM does (logs statistics) so if you use FUCKING STEAM and allowed Valve to know everything you done.
Its funny in a way, Valve did this crap and put it under the radar and you cannot turn it off and they get away, EA does it and its Help! Police! Murder!
BriarRosethorn:
Quote from: Anach on 2010 June 02, 13:37:21
Every one of you probably posts more information on public forums than EA could ever get from its Sims 3 Data logging. You should ask yourself, what is Pescado doing with all this information. Maybe building an AI simulacrum army which with Google's help will TAKE OVER THE WORLD!
Ahahaha, good thing I don't use AM, then.
Nah, I don't have anything against AM. I just don't use it myself.
jezzer:
Quote from: wizard_merlin on 2010 June 02, 12:00:20
Quote from: parrot on 2010 June 02, 09:29:21
I guess the main question is, could they take any info on downloads, and attack people legally over pirated store content? Like a witch hunt?
That's my main fear anyways.
Would it be possible to disable it with AM? In the mean time, I am not letting the game touch the Internet.
I wonder what the legal position would be. If they are retrieving personal information to identify you, AFTER stating they do not, they may be in more trouble than the person they went after, for installing spyware such as that without permission, invasion of privacy, and no doubt a host of other issues. Now if they add something in their EULA which says they are collecting such information with a view to taking action, that might be a different matter, but I suspect if such stuff was there, someone would have found it by now.
Yeah, that's exactly what Microsoft did with the XBox 360. The EULA stated that modding the XBox voided the warranty, Microsoft had the ability to scan machines that connected to LIVE to check if they were modded, and Microsoft had the ability to shut those machines down. This, of course, didn't stop the butthurt that came when Microsoft acted on it; it just made it funnier.
Drakron:
Not exactly.
Microsoft banned modded Xbox 360 from Live and only the machines themselves as the accounts still work, just the console is banned from Live.
They cannot shut down the console (doing so would create a dangerous precedent) but they can ban then from using services (TOS) and as for the warranty, that is pretty standard as if you modify the machine then the manufacturer cannot be held responsible for it.
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