What bothers me about this is that people bought the game, but they can't play it because EA doesn't want to run servers for it and prohibits everyone else from doing so. I very much preferred the old days when players had to run their own servers. It was less convenient, but made for great community and avoided situations like this.
Well it's not about server, but about MASTER servers. Those used to discover "players own servers" in the internet.
It's too bad that something like DHT isn't used for storing info about game servers.