Origin EULA

[selestus]

http://www.pcgameshardware.de/aid,84167 ... rnet/News/

sry that it is in german (someone can search for it in english if he wants to ;D)
the point is: ea can scan your hard drive and use the information for everything they want to

they violate many european and german rights with it and i dont know what will happen with it...

ea keeps on trollin

[Decadef]

This in unacceptable . To give EA the rigth, to search your PC and datas is the same, as giving them you passwords to your bank-account.

I hope, they will have to remove this from their service.

Damed EA , they really think, the can do eveything, or what?

[nBurbidge]

Old article, they changed the EULA.

http://uk.pc.gamespy.com/articles/119/1191030p1.html#

Pretty sure Steam does the same anyway.

[selestus]

Old article, they changed the EULA.

http://uk.pc.gamespy.com/articles/119/1191030p1.html#

Pretty sure Steam does the same anyway.

ok i did read the eula in the install fowlder of origin and saw that but there was a link on a ea website where it did say that ea can do everything so i was confused

but nice to read that :)

(i think this topic can already be locked :D)

[MonSteR]

I would say its just for detecting Cheaters or Hackers. If they think anybody cheats, they search for Programs. Not more, i think :D

If you don't hak you haven't any problems with orgin. Orgin sucks like Steam

[Gratze]

Lol, now I deleted every illegal downloaded game.
Whatever, I finished every game so I don't care about them.

But this EULA is very strange >.>

[Penguin]

You're all wrong... They can't scan and take your bank account details, since this would be highly illegal, no EULA could get them out of that.

Pacman - Just no... Origin is not used to detect cheat programs on your pc, it is not an anti-cheat system.

I have no idea why you would delete illegal games grace, Origin would not detect them, and they certainly can't do anything to your other legal games, just because you have them.

[Gratze]

Lol, if they are allowed to scan your complete HDD, if you accept the EULA. It is possible. As I said, idk about this games ^^

[Barcode]

Lol, if they are allowed to scan your complete HDD, if you accept the EULA. It is possible. As I said, idk about this games ^^

Yes its possable but i dought it would do anything about it. as far as it knows they are registered?

[Penguin]

No. You aren't allowed to distribute illegal games, if you install a copy on your hard-drive they can do nothing, and they certainly cannot affect any of your legal games or EA services( as they are distributed under license per game, not as EA as a whole) .

You agree that EA may collect, use, store and transmit technical and related information that identifies your computer (including the Internet Protocol Address), operating system, Application usage (including but not limited to successful installation and/or removal), software, software usage and peripheral hardware, that may be gathered periodically to facilitate the provision of software updates, dynamically served content, product support and other services to you, including online services. EA may also use this information combined with personal information for marketing purposes and to improve our products and services. We may also share that data with our third party service providers in a form that does not personally identify you.

Guys read it careful. They don't scan your hard-drive. What they do is:

Collect your pc IP adress, operating system, and peripheral hardware (mouse/kb). Steam does all of this anyway. They only bit really 'new' is monitoring application usage and software usage, basically they will just say 'Oh look Penguin uses bla bla so lets send him an email advertising bla bla'.

However, they changed it due to the demands of the consumers, and now the new one disallows them to use your information in this way.

I hope that helps everyone to understand the whole thing properly.

Locked.