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$5M Starforce Class Action Lawsuit
Hate Starforce? Want to sue them? Well, Christopher Spence has already done it on your behalf. Christopher has filed a $5M class action lawsuit against Ubisoft for using Starforce DRM in their games, and if he wins, you'll be entitled to collect if you've ever had your system infected by Starforce. More »
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Starforce Tells Customer: Liar, Liar, Pants On Fire
Caveat: the second people start sissily flapping their hands at their sides in a huff and crying "libel" is the second we roll our eyes and start rooting for the other side. People don't understand the term, thinking it somehow gives them legal power to sue people who criticize or insult them. But when the other side to root for is Starforce, and when rooting is shothand for "root kit," we're ready to grasp the peaked tips of our skulls and pull ourselves in bloody half by the scalp, to accurately externalize our division. More »
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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 »
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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 »
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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 »
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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 »
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