Mass Effect and Spore to treat customers as criminals, include onerous DRM

Apparently Mass Effect and Spore are going to include DRM that's even worse than the one Bioshock had. It's like they don't want us to send them any money.
( Let us compare the 'legal' version with the pirated copy under the cut... )

It's a damn shame really. Both of these highly anticipated games would have been bought sight unseen by me, and now I'm wondering if I really want to buy them at all. EA? You just threw away two guaranteed sales, I hope you're happy.

( Steam or a boycott won't really help either... )