[Bretto]

"EA also told me that unless I paid an EXTRA £2 to 'safeguard' my Spore creature creator for two years I'd only be able to re-download it for 6 Months."

Just the sort of marketting that'll put anyone with half a brain cell off downloading legally. You buy something, you should be able to keep it forever, either on your hardrive to copy and replace when needed or downloadable from a website.I'll stick to disks thank you very much!