EA Bans Entire Country from Using Origin

[Gregster]

A few days ago, users in Myanmar found that they could no longer access their purchased EA games through Origin. As reddit user trivial_sublime described the situation:

“I live in Myanmar, and I own about 20 games on Origin, and have spent hundreds of dollars on the platform. I’ve bought the full editions of all of the Battlefield games up to this point, with their season passes. I was trying to log into Origin a few days ago, and got a bizarre “Access Denied” message. I googled it, and found that “Origin is no longer available in Myanmar.”

http://www.eteknix.com/ea-bans-entire-country-from-using-origin/

Surely this is some kind of mistake? All those people who have bought games through Origin can no longer access them. Why on earth would they do that?