An Electronic Arts “Spore” forum moderator threatens to disable the entire game for a user’s simply having asked about SecuROM in EA’s forums. This would seem to confirm that Spore does in fact have a kill switch built in, which is something that the EA apologists have continually dismissed.
“SecuROM as [sic] been discussed and discussed [...]

So after a couple days of standing around Gamestop waiting for their shipment to arrive, they finally got some Wiis while I was there. So last friday, I finally got my Wii!