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The Star-Froce copy protection used by all UBI-Soft games has just became much more dangerous to your PC.

Now, Futuremark has uncovered a very dangerous anti-piracy system Starforce is now using. This copy protection system installs a driver that runs at the highest level of access on the system, which gives it low level access to the PCs hardware and any drivers and processes.



This driver runs regardless of whether the game runs; keeping an eye out for any suspicious activity such as attempting to copy a protected disc. If something suspicious is detected, it forces the PC to make an immediate reboot, regardless of any other applications running and whether or not the user has any unsaved work.

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rocky01 Unregistered

#64275 Posted on: 03/21/2006 04:38 PM Horrorfying. I refused to use Steam for several reasons, and now will skip over these two companies offerings, since I refuse to play ball with any outfit who devalues normal customers in zeal to catch crooks.

MB Member Posts: 26 Joined: 2004-05-21

#64276 Posted on: 03/21/2006 05:05 PM Agreed 100%.

MB Member Posts: 26 Joined: 2004-05-21

#64278 Posted on: 03/21/2006 05:08 PM Seriously, if I was a Starforce programmer I would either quit that job ASAP or quit life... I would feel like a criminal otherwise... And they are criminals IMO.

CpuSlayer Unregistered

#64283 Posted on: 03/22/2006 07:17 AM It looks like the honest person buying games and music gets bronze, but the not so honest person gets gold. Compairing reteail verses cracked warez.

CpuSlayer Unregistered

#64284 Posted on: 03/22/2006 07:21 AM Its not really the company's fault that they half to put rediculous protections on their investment. Its the pirates fault for making the company go to these measures. Just my 2 cents.

DrEvil-OB Unregistered

#64289 Posted on: 03/22/2006 02:14 PM Wtf are you talking about? UBI Soft is not related to steam in any way. Valve made steam for the Half-life products and licensees. Valves games contain no StarForce. Get your game developers straight before you start trashing them.

rocky01 Unregistered

#64290 Posted on: 03/22/2006 03:53 PM Uh, you know I was using the HalLife Steam Engine as a point of reference, right? Which is to say there are more & more examples of suits in these companies incorporating punitive measures on all their customer base in the name of catching elusive, cunning pirates who usually steal the same 'protected' intellectual property within hours of the new measure being instituted upon the rest of us. There is a price tag and we pay for it, both with the anti-theft measures' inconveniences and potential damages done to hardware & operating systems as well as higher costs, fewer talented game developers being retained, fewer games being developed, and most critically, fewer games worth playing. Good grief ,there are too many 'experts' running around trying to get ppl straight, LOL.

Cimlite Junior Member Posts: 6 Joined: 2005-11-12

#64291 Posted on: 03/22/2006 04:03 PM That's just not true... since the copy protections does not work anyway, the only people that suffer from it is people that do the right thing and buy the game. That is wrong. If the copy protection does not actually DO anything but hassle people that bought the game in perticular, there is no real reason do add that copy protection in the first place. It won't change whats going to happen anyway. StarForce in perticular though, this is just wrong. They have no right to intrude on peoples computers and start making decisions for them, especially when they enforce it with instant reboots/rootkits or whatnot. It's just not right.

MB Member Posts: 26 Joined: 2004-05-21

#64296 Posted on: 03/23/2006 12:48 AM For most idiots Steam is not a curse, its a blessing to them. Thats why he prolly didnt understand it. /shrug

FailedCRC Unregistered

#64304 Posted on: 03/23/2006 03:52 PM as far as invasive drm goes, steam is not it.

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