"Hopefully, if the piracy rate for the game is low, perhaps EA will get comfortable enough to ship with even less DRM in the future."

...Why link DRM to piracy rates, when the DRM on Spore made MORE people pirate it, and most DRM doesn't do much of anything to prevent it? All DRM does is f*ck up computers, infringe on people's legitimate rights (like the right of first sale), and anger and inconvenience customers.

If EA wants a good reason to get rid of its poorly-implemented, rights-infringing crap, it couldn't ask for a much better one than "customers hate it and hate you for it".