December 2015
Installing the patches will solve this issue. It takes the Securom system and replaces it with an EA account system. Since people seem to be confused, here is a link to the patch page. 1.04 is the one you want.
May 2016
That's for Windows only (.exe). The issue being reported, and experienced by me as well, is for Mac. The automatic update won't apply when the game is launched because of the securom error. You launch the game after installing it. It notifies you of an update. It downloads the update, extracts the update, then prompts to check securom, which always fails. Then just stars over again on next launch (update available, download, extract, etc). This is a bug that needs to be fixed.
February 2017
How do I fix this problem.
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