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License / EULA legality (EA Origin)

  • 23-10-2011 9:28pm
    #1
    hare05
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,041 ✭✭✭


    Hi,

    I'm considering buying the game Battlefield 3 but the End User License Agreement of the download platform states the requirement for the customer to submit full access to all areas of their PC, and any personal info that could be gleaned from such a scan.

    My question is, legally, can they force you to do this? I know in Canada at least, the service must be offered and made accessible to the user in a form with access limited solely to what is required to run it, with further access being a voluntary commitment after the fact.

    Is there anything in Irish law that covers this? Or at least any recommendation on where to start looking?

    BTW regardless on whether I can prove their terms to be illegal or not, I intend to sandbox Origin and prevent it from accessing other areas of the PC (Using Sandboxie). For anyone with knowledge of licensing laws in IT, is there any way this could give them reason to legally deny me access to the purchased service? I'm not altering (reverse engineering) their files, I'm just placing an extra layer of security around areas I do not permit it access to so it will be able to access files in it's own folder and game folders it creates, but not my documents, external drives or software purchased from other companies (I've already seen logs of Origin poking around in the config files of XFire, a competing service).


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