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Ubisoft Dumps Starforce Like Hermaphrodite Girlfriend

Looks like that five million dollar class-action lawsuit against Ubisoft for using Starforce DRM in its products has paid off: Ubisoft have announced that in response to the lawsuit, they are dropping Starforce from all future products. More »

10:00 AM on Mon Apr 17 2006
By consumerist.com
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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
107 views, 1 comment

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Starforce Is Sorry For Warezing Critic's Game

Earlier this week we reported on Starforce, a gaming copy-protection company located in the cold, vacant womb of Ex-Soviet Russia, actually encouraging their site visitors to warez a game made by Stardock, a company that had criticized Starforce and its ilk's heavy-handed DRM methods. They even posted links to where users could download Stardock's game. More »

6:24 AM on Thu Mar 16 2006
By consumerist.com
86 views, 4 comments

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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
1,380 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 more »