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KeepOnRockin
Music Lover Forever
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join:2002-11-08
Beaverton, OR
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| No Thanks! quote:
if our software breaks your CD/DVD drive, you get $1,000
Breaking the CD/DVD drive was never the issue with these copy protection/DRM/Rootkit software packages.
The issue was messing up your Windows installation and installing malicious software/backdoors into your system.
Starforce can keep their $1000. I'll continue to use Linux and do as I please with the CDs I purchase and download.
I'll never install Starforce! | |
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Doctor Four
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join:2000-09-05
Dallas, TX | Re: No Thanks! IIRC, one of the complaints with Starforce (other than
the stealth installs) was that it interfered with USB
devices, sometimes even causing data loss. | |
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kywirelessgu
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join:2004-01-25
Nicholasville, KY
clubs:
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| Re: No Thanks! Its still installed on my system, even after uninstalling the game that used it. I know there are removers out there, I just like to see it running in my taskmanager so I can laugh at their attempts to stop me from playing pirated games.
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join:2002-09-05 | Re: No Thanks! StarForce doesn't run as a process that you can see in task manager. | |
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kywirelessgu
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clubs: | I was thinking of securom7 | |
| JimmySask
join:2004-06-24
Regina, SK
| said by KeepOnRockin  :Breaking the CD/DVD drive was never the issue with these copy protection/DRM/Rootkit software packages. The issue was messing up your Windows installation and installing malicious software/backdoors into your system. Exactly what I was thinking. I highly doubt they will pay out anything. My understanding was this is the same sort of issue as was seen with Sony fiasco, in that when one tried to remove the software, the CD/DVD drive was disabled or inaccessible due to blocked or disable drivers etc, NOT completely unusable, regardless of software.
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