Well, its actually going to be a bit nastier for those who get banned.

Your forum account will be directly tied to your Master EA Account, so if we ban you on the forums, you would be banned from the game as well since the login process is the same. And you’d actually be banned from your other EA games as well since its all tied to your account. So if you have SPORE and Red Alert 3 and you get yourself banned on our forums or in-game, well, your SPORE account would be banned to. It’s all one in the same, so I strongly reccommend people play nice and act mature.

Now this is really crazy! Apparently, if EA don’t like what you do on their forum or anywhere else for that matter, you’ll be locked out of your own games! If this is really true, then I’ve never ever seen such a distasteful treatment of customers in my entire life. True, the victims here are most likely not mom’s angel, but they’ve still got rights, and this isn’t mentioned in the TOS. Not that I’m a lawyer or anything, but I think it’s illegal to steal, and if EA regards piracy as stealing, then this is definitely stealing too! So congrats EA, you just became a thief!

Update:  Thankfully, it turns out that this is just a misunderstanding. EA will NOT ban you from you game.

Seriously, my first impression was “KDE on Vista”. This is the same copycat behavour we’ve seen before from the Redmond-area. For instance, that taskbar looks quite like that in KDE 4, and MS have been “creative” enought to let those widg … oh sorry, I of course mean gadgets, float on the desktop instead of beeing confined to the sidebar. “New!” Riiiiiight … Then there’s the new Explorer, which has it’s resemblance of Dolphin.

I’m all aware of the fact that MS, Apple, KDE etc. are all sort of stealing ideas from each other, but everyone except MS actually does bring something new to the table now and then. When the heck i MS going to do that? When is MS actually going to be innovative instead of constantly being a copycat ending up with a bad copy? Gotta wonder …