Electronic Arts has a hit on its hands with the creator-creation and evolution game Spore, but the company has certainly run afoul of many of its users through a SecuROM authorization scheme that requires users to authorize individual computers and gaming sessions in order to play the game. Disgruntled users launched a class action suit against EA over the DRM scheme and EA raised the number of computers on which users may install Spore to five. However, if a computer crashed, was stolen, or simply wiped out, there was no way to remove valid authorization from one computer and transfer it to another.
