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Re: hidden? but you can see it ;) said by keith2468:
If it is quietly preventing you violating the copyrights of other unrelated software from other companies, that is maybe approaching the line.
1. It hijacks and takes control over your default and rightful Windows drivers.
2. Reports are it has caused big problems with unrelated devices, like the guy who lost all his college work when the StarForce invasion blew out his USB external drive.
3. It installs secretly, and separately from the game.
4. It is not uninstalled with the game that put it there.
5. If you uninstall it manually, it reinstalls itself, like a virus and becomes a permanent part of your O/S running all the time to do who knows what and cause who knows what incompatibilities and errors with other copy protected game, software, devices or drivers.
6. I have read reports that I can not confirm, but strongly believe, that some versions of SafeDisc falsely identify the StarForce "driver" as a virtual device driver which is blacklisted by SafeDisc. The result is the other SafeDisc game fails to run because of it's conflicting copy protection scheme. What are the odds that your average user is going to be able to track that down? All you here is, "My game won't run. Says I have virtual software and I don't!" |
