starforce

[Svanire]

A big release TES4:Oblivion just last month has made records sales. It has no CD-Key and no CD inbuilt copy protection. The problem is that some companies whine how much money they lose to piracy, but pirates arent going to buy it anyways so how can you lose money that you will never get? It just goes to show that if people think a games good enough they’ll buy it despite the alternatives. SD atm has a clean slate and will have a lot of following and loyalty from Wolf ET it would be a stupid move to endanger potential sales.

I have seen some of their workers get downright mean on message boards also. Threatening to sue people that complain about SF. I remember an email demanding a guy remove his post from some forum, because the SF guy didnt like it, and threatened to pursue legal action.

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haha the russian style of business.

[ParanoiD]

We could just give them a pistol and let the ppl at SF play russian Roulette

[bacon1]

We could just give them a pistol and let the ppl at SF play russian Roulette

No they’ll demand you to remove all the bullets or they’ll sue [after they die] !!

[Joe999]

gamespot says that now it’s official:

Ubisoft officially dumps Starforce
Citing “complaints,” the publisher ends its relationship with the copyright-protection provider.

Following several days of rumors, Ubisoft has officially confirmed that it will no longer use the controversial digital-rights software from Starforce. “Ubisoft has decided to use an alternative copy-protection system to Starforce for upcoming releases,” said a rep for the company. The announcement means that Starforce software will not be included in Heroes of Might and Magic V, the publisher’s much-anticipated forthcoming PC role-playing game.

Ubisoft’s decision caps weeks of controversy surrounding Starforce. In mid-March, an employee of the Russian-German-Chinese-Cypriot company was accused of posting a link to a site where users could illegally download Stardock’s space sim Galactic Civilizations II: Dread Lords. Shortly, thereafter, Aspyr Media decided to sever its relationship with Starforce and remove its software from its forthcoming game, Spellforce 2: Shadow Wars.

Ubisoft’s motivation for ending its agreement with Starforce was more personal. At the end of March, the company was slapped with a $5 million lawsuit by gamers who claimed that Starforce’s DRM system compromised the security of their PCs. “We are currently investigating complaints about alleged problems with Starforce’s software,” said the Ubisoft rep.

Ubisoft officially dumps Starforce

[Nail]

it might make them re-think their connection with starforce though

looks like they did

[ayatollah]

STARFORCE TO BE DROPPED!!!

LINKY LINKY

[Salteh]

btw btw!

I just heard…
UBISOFT AREN’T USING STARFORCE ANYMORE!!!

[Black_Forky]

I hope the Starforce company rots in hell…

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[Joe999]

better be careful with what you write. if someone of them reads it, they’ll threaten you to sue you. and after that they’re gonna sue SD for allowing someone like you post on their forum and then they’re gonna sue id for employing SD and ET:QW will be delayed to infinity and the world will change and it’s all your fault

[Black_Forky]

Fixed

[Joe999]

starforce is only one of many. last week i installed “security task manager” (great tool btw) and had to find out that a securom driver was running permanently in the background on my pc - without my permission of course.

[Ragnar_40k]

better be careful with what you write. if someone of them reads it, they’ll threaten you to sue you. and after that they’re gonna sue SD for allowing someone like you post on their forum and then they’re gonna sue id for employing SD and ET:QW will be delayed to infinity and the world will change and it’s all your fault

Here in Germany we had a weird decision lately, where the board operator is accountable for posts made by users. One reason was that a bulletin board is a “notably dangerous facility” and therefore anyone who operates such a source of danger is subject of aggravated liabilities (I hope I translated that juristic bafflegab correct). And the liability does start as soon as a user posted something and not when the operator notices the post (and maybe deletes it) …

http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/72026 (sorry, in German in only).

[Black_Forky]

There is no way any forum operator would have the time to moderate every single post in a 20,000 user board even with other moderators moderating. From the badly translated article (google translator) it looks like they are gearing the legislation more towards posting copyrighted mateial than any kind of libel suit. Still a very bad precedent though, the moderator should be able to see a post before he is liable.