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How To Remove Starforce From Your System

In relation to our Starforce Accuses Critics Of Being Russian Mob post yesterday, reader SamC asks: "BTW, any links to starforce removal tools? (My computer is clean, but I clean up other computers for a fee. This would be pretty useful.)" More »

5:13 AM on Thu Mar 23 2006
By consumerist.com
864 views, 1 comment

Latest by SamC: Yeah... after the Sony "removal" tool from Sony, I'll be damned if if I'm going to use Starforce's. The Boycott Starforce site looks like a winner though. Thanks! more »

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Starforce Accuses Critics Of Being Russian Mob

Starforce — a Russian company that sells highly-invasive copy-protection to software companies and threatens lawsuits against its critics — went up about a tenth of a notch in our books when they apologized to Stardock for posting links to illegal torrents of their most recent game, in response to Stardock's implied criticism of their software. More »

6:15 AM on Wed Mar 22 2006
By consumerist.com
122 views, 1 comment

Latest by SamC: Someone contact the russian mob, and tell them that Starforce is using their name in vain. The situation should solve itself. BTW, any links to starforce removal tools? (My computer is clean, but I clean up other computers for a fee. This would be pretty useful.) more »

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Why Starforce Sucks: DRM CSR Idiot Pirates

A brief history: for those of you who aren't into video games, you might not have heard about Starforce, a Russian company that has become infamous amongst the gaming community for an extremely invasive and draconian copyright protection system that has, according to numerous forum posts, completely broken many customer's computers. Starforce denies these claims and smugly mention that they recently held a contest for $10,000 dollars to prove in their office that Starforce breaks systems. According to them, no one won. The problem? They required you to demonstrate it in some Muscovite office complex, under their supervision. We doubt many people were twitching to fly to Russia just to lose a $10,000 bet on some dreamed-up technicality. More »

5:56 AM on Tue Mar 14 2006
By consumerist.com
1,479 views, 3 comments

Latest by BenP: ...seems like yet another reason to abandon PCs (and Macs) as gaming platforms. At least my Xbox doesn't ask for a serial number. Yet. I do miss the red cellophane paper and decoding words on page 22 of the instructions to install games though. more »