Electronic Arts has responded to criticism of its controversial DRM system employed in some of its games, including Mass Effect and Dead Space, by releasing a DRM De-Authorization Tool which scans your machine, checks how many activations you have left and then allows you to make a fresh install or install the game on another PC.

The list of EA's SecuROM titles that this will free up includes:

- Burnout Paradise: The Ultimate Box
- Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3
- Crysis Warhead
- Dead Space
- FIFA Manager 09
- FIFA Soccer 09
- Littlest Pet Shop
- The Lord of the Rings: Conquest
- Mass Effect
- Mercenaries 2: World in Flames
- Mirror's Edge
- MySims
- Need for Speed: Undercover
- NHL 09
- Spore
- Spore Creature Creator
- The Sims 2: Apartment Life
- The Sims 2 IKEA Home Stuff
- The Sims 2 Mansion & Garden Stuff

Last week, EA also confirmed that the upcoming Sims 3 will be DRM free.

For more information and to download the de-authorization tool check out the official site - http://activate.ea.com/deauthorize/