Some complaints mention the system’s combative publisher, Moscow-based StarForce Technologies Inc. Publisher representatives seldom post to apologize or ask details. A dominant theme in these posts is resentment toward StarForce and game publishers for screwing up their customers’ computers without warning. Many players report they bought honest, legal copies of StarForce-protected games, could not make them run and finally, in desperation, visited pirate sites to download no-CD cracks or warez versions. In any forum topic about StarForce, embittered players across the spectrum speak in one voice about crippled operating systems and ruined CD drives. To about the 80th percentile, gamers – or anyway, the gamers who post online – passionately loathe StarForce. In theory, you need never become aware StarForce is on your hard drive.
Consumers unwittingly install StarForce’s hidden drivers along with the game software. Some publishers even use StarForce on demos intended to be distributed widely and freely, to prevent hackers from using the demo to crack the protected full version. Thirty publishers have used StarForce copy protection on over 150 PC games, including popular titles like Splinter Cell 3, Rainbow Six: Lockdown, King Kong and the TrackMania series. Yet in this spastic litany, one topic has finally united both sides: the widely used Windows copy protection software StarForce. blah blah, yammer yammer, mama mama please make it stop!.copy protection punishes honest users and doesn’t stop pirates.without copy protection, the companies would go broke and stop making games.no they don’t, the pirates wouldn’t have bought the game.yes it is, pirates take income from the creators.no it’s not, it’s copyright infringement.
In every era, in every iteration, combatants unfailingly, compulsively restate the exact same points, often in precisely the same order: The argument has become ritualized, a pathological fugue state. Even choosing a term, “piracy” or “filesharing,” can revive the debate, which began on Usenet in the 1970s, then moved to 1200-baud BBS FidoNet feeds – to roundtables on Compuserve and GEnie – to Slashdot and Digg and a hundred forums. Piracy, or filesharing, is computer gaming’s West Bank, a bitter cycle of struggle across generations. – “ME BIGGD01” commenting on post “ DRM causes big trouble again,” March 22, 2006 Anyone who thinks otherwise deserves death also. They are scum and should be accountable for the full worth of anyone’s PC who is affected by their DRM BS. I think all responsible should have their heads cut off and sent to their mothers.
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