Posted April 16, 2010
The only halfway reasonable legal case I'd be able to make against the Ubisoft DRM would either be from a truth-in-advertising angle, or from a fitness for purpose angle. However, I'm under the impression that system requirements on the games state that a constant internet connection is needed, so there's not much to go on from the advertising angle. And with respect to fitness for purpose there are already strong consumer protections in place in all EU countries (if the DRM prevents you from reasonably playing the game the store you bought it from is required to give you a refund), so it's unlikely that anyone would think more needed to be done when that remedy is already available. Basically, although the Ubisoft DRM sucks there are already remedies in place, it doesn't seem to run afoul of any obvious consumer protection laws, and if you think it does then you need to be armed with a much stronger argument than "I don't like it, so it's got to be illegal in some way."