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Old 03-20-2006, 11:07 AM   #161
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MORE STUPIDITY!

CGW did some testing and concluded Starforce may indeed cause problems with certain optical drives, even leading to their destruction. When questioned about Starforce boycott and all the negative comments Starforce gets, their PR manager replied - wait for this -

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The issue on StarForce is obviously sponsored by our competitors or organized crime groups that run CD/DVD piracy [operations]. We are now in close coopreration with [US and Russian officials] investigating the matter and trying to find out who stands behind the boycott campaign.
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Old 03-20-2006, 11:43 AM   #162
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is obviously sponsored by our competitors, organized crime groups, aliens, the masons, the templars, or the Bush administration.

We are now in close (some of us are sleeping with each other) coopreration with [US and Russian officials] investigating where the hell I put my keys.
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Old 03-20-2006, 11:46 AM   #163
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Because if you dare question freedom restrictions, you must be a criminal. How dare we say that their program affects our PCs when they've so clearly shown us the sourcecode to prove otherwise.
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Old 03-20-2006, 02:50 PM   #164
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MORE STUPIDITY!

CGW did some testing and concluded Starforce may indeed cause problems with certain optical drives, even leading to their destruction. When questioned about Starforce boycott and all the negative comments Starforce gets, their PR manager replied - wait for this -



It seems they're better at demolishing their own reputation/company than making actually decent software

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The issue on StarForce is obviously sponsored by our competitors or organized crime groups that run CD/DVD piracy [operations] the Pentagon in cooperation with aliens from Alpha Centauri. We are now in close cooperation with [US and Russian officials] alcoholic FSB agents investigating the matter trying to find some Kryptonite and trying to find out who stands behind the boycott campaign.
My version actually makes more sense, how 'bout that.
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Old 03-21-2006, 05:22 AM   #165
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This is rather disgusting behaviour by software, I've never heard of anything doing anything like this accept for malware*.

Starforce enforces DRM by instant reboot (without warning)

*although Windows not being allowed to boot if you change certain hardware is close.
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Old 03-21-2006, 06:02 AM   #166
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Nonsense, it's common knowledge that such things happen only to pirates and Very Bad People™.
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Old 03-24-2006, 03:57 PM   #167
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Someone accuses StarForce of being a worm, spreading across partitions, and even network drives.

Also agrees with the previous article posted, from CDFreak, that StarForce runs all the time, not just when games are run.
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