Spyware in Battlefield 2142

This is something crazy I was reading while surfing on some sites. If this is true what will become of windows vista if even game developers will start to put spyware in their software? :S Sony allready got caught a while back trying to do the same......more and more companies are getting guilty in putting spyware in their programms. It's no longer an Internet problem. The problem is now even with the products we buy? :S
Here is a link.....

http://www.gamer.nl/images/content [...] 09_0_2.jpg

EA aren't mugs. They've picked a game that is so anticipated and hyped that any attempt by the gaming community to organise a boycott is unlikely to be successful. Shame.

I hope that every magazine and site that reviews the game makes a big point about the spyware. People should be aware of it long before they even take the game to the till.

I might be willing to get a game that used advertising or even some forms of this "spyware" but not after I've spent fifty bucks on the game to start with. If they make the game free then I'll play it, but otherwise not a chance.