The Rise and Fall of EA's DRM

Not too long ago, EA announced plans to "protect" its games Mass Effect and Spore for the PC using a system called SecuROM, which requires online validation at the time of installation and every 5-10 days thereafter. Fortunately, fans made quite a ruckus (many going so far as to express plans to blatantly pirate the games instead of pay for them), and EA decided to back down.