Burnout Paradise City "web" splash screen

[Fursphere]

I've got the Origin version of Burnout Paradise City.

When the game loads, after the logos, it pops up a "white" splash screen (guessing it was a web page at one point...) that you have to use the mouse to close in the lower right corner.  Really annoying.

Any way to remove this? 

thanks

[BadMouth]

Hopefully someone will post a direct way, but as a last resort an autohotkey script could be made to close it.
Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams has a "thanks for playing" window that pops up when you exit the game that I did an ahk script to automatically close.

[Fursphere]

I should fire up a web trace and see what it's actually looking for.  Maybe that's where the answer lies.