New version of starforce...

[Tim Dorr Veteran]

That's exactly what I thought until I checked one day to find SF installed on my PC. Turned out a demo I had downloaded installed it. :(

WTF? Who needs to stop the piracy of a DEMO? :blink:

[AionXn_]

WTF? Who needs to stop the piracy of a DEMO? :blink:

LOL i know eh! god damnit. seriously, starforce needs to be SHUT DOWN! :crazy:

[Inplode]

WTF? Who needs to stop the piracy of a DEMO? :blink:

yep ive come across a few demos that had starforce on this !

[Nick Sheldon]

Good old StarForce, taking away the feeling of guilt that comes from pirating...

lol..nice one.

:devil:

And for anyone that _might_ be worried in case they have it.

Check this out.

http://www.glop.org/starforce/list.php

[»X«]

Checkit

http://www.glop.org/starforce/images/starf...icial-words.png

He also can't spell. :p

And you can't link huge images like that :p - timdorr

Edited March 21, 2006 by ti -m ./dorr

[Beastage]

I dunno, seems reasonable to stop the spread of piracy.

What how?!!! you're a coder and that sounds reasonable to you?!

is it reasonable to jeopardize pc's because some stupid piece of code thinks its pirating?!

btw Futuremark are not the ones who discovered but rather members on their forums.

[The_Decryptor Veteran]

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He also can't spell. :p

Might be because he's Russian. :rolleyes:

[Tim Dorr Veteran]

What how?!!! you're a coder and that sounds reasonable to you?!

is it reasonable to jeopardize pc's because some stupid piece of code thinks its pirating?!

Ha! I was wondering when someone was going to fall for my trap :laugh:

[Wheazel]

I just LOVE Starforce.

They give gameprotection a bad name, Games should start from there own power and ditch the gameprotection.

Just like Oblivion.

[Shadrack]

This is really sad. The people who pay their hard earned money are the losers. The pirates will just make a crack that removes the DRM protection and not have to deal with it at all.

[Beastage]

Ha! I was wondering when someone was going to fall for my trap :laugh:

Trap eh? oh no you don't... you aren't getting away with it that easily

[quigley0]

I've found threads about removing starforce, but I assume that once you remove it the game no longer plays?

Also, would it be against Neowin rules to ask for assistance in getting a game to work, without starforce installed?

Like I said, I am not a Pirate, but, I feel that this software causes more harm than anything else. Some of the games on the list I actually like: trackmania, BoA, etc. It just sucks.

[ceminess]

I've found threads about removing starforce, but I assume that once you remove it the game no longer plays?

Also, would it be against Neowin rules to ask for assistance in getting a game to work, without starforce installed?

Like I said, I am not a Pirate, but, I feel that this software causes more harm than anything else. Some of the games on the list I actually like: trackmania, BoA, etc. It just sucks.

Posting that kind of stuff is risky for neowin. I would suggest places more like cdfreaks or daemon tools boards. I'm not going to link to their boards but a simple google search and you can find them.

[djesteban]

This kind of protection scheme should be illegal. It is just as bad as a virus IMHO. I still remember the problem I had when I wanted to install Splinter Cell Chaos Theory. Wouldn't run because I had virtual drives installed and I need those to mount image for my job. I was lucky though that I was able to get my money back. Trust me, I will never buy a game with that protection sheme EVER again, that's for sure.

I hope Ubisoft won't use this protection again or i'll do my best to convince people in Montreal not to buy there games... even if it's made here.

It's just a total disrespect to the customer... :no:

[gertin]

WTF? Who needs to stop the piracy of a DEMO? :blink:

They do it so that pirates don't use the unprotected demo .exe to run the full game. :)

[summers]

If Starforce can gain access to Ring0 on Windows, virus writers can reverse engineer the code, learn how to gain access the same way, or even simpler, attack Starforce's code to enable their virus to hitch a ride on the system. In other words, if Starforce can be hacked (which it had many times), then Starforce is a serious backdoor to any system. Don't they have a law against this? Hopefully Vista doesn't allow anything to gain access to Ring0.

[ReAnimation]

Update:

Its been confirmed by futuremark that they have not carried out any investigations into starforce themselves, it appears that the information came from members of futuremarks forums.

More info here:

http://www.futuremark.com/news/?newsarticl...0603/2006032104

[kiall]

They do it so that pirates don't use the unprotected demo .exe to run the full game. :)

remembers tip for future lol

cant this this going down very well :no:

[Carlos11]

Let's wait for an ad-aware fix! :D

[foxconn287]

starforce is awesome u pirate u DIEEE

[soil]

:whistle: sounds like a virus.

starforce suck i hope this crap doesnt get put on SC4 :crazy: im not paying ?30 for a game with that crap on.

[Glowstick]

How I remember it, every application using the Starforce driver can get access to kernel mode (aka Ring 0). Yay for that.

Also, what's the fuzz about all this Ring 0 stuff anyway? Every damn driver in Windows runs in Ring 0.

[ThePitt]

New version of starforce

Will be really "funny"/"nice"/"funky" (haha), when this crap takes the control via EFI :rolleyes: :blink: :pinch: :|

[Flash]

The next version will just call the FBI and then they will just bust down your door when starforce suspects illegal activity :ninja:

[Circaflex]

wait, does FM make Starforce?