That article makes me laugh every time! XD
I have bought every Sims 2 EP except for Pets, and I purchased Spore for my birthday. Yes, I was aware of SecuROM, but I figured it wouldn't hurt my computer (it didn't). But so many people are having computer trouble right now because of that sucky DRM that EA thinks is going to stop Pirates. If they haven't noticed, people are illegally downloading their games left and right; it obviously hasn't stopped anyone.
Spore runs extremely slowly on my computer, and yes, my computer has better specs than required to run the game. Now the game won't even start up, and I just uninstalled it about 5 minutes ago. Now I'm going to join the masses and write a 1-star Amazon review.
Anyway, I'm glad EA is suffering for what they did to their consumers by putting SecuROM on their games.