Originally Posted by Menigal 
Just out of curiousity, did Origin ever change its stance on data-raping customers?
At least in Germany, they did : After the German "Verbraucherberatung" had sent them a Cease & Desist letter - or so I understood it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_…ion_in_Germany
German-language article before EA changed its EULA :
http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/netzp…-a-794600.html
They changed at least the EULA - and supposedly "Origins", too - after this and several similar newspaper/magazine articles.