Starforce plays it dirty

[Reef]

Check this link:

http://forums.galciv2.com/index.aspx?forumid=161&aid=106741&c=1

Starforce people have put a direct link to a torrent file for Galactic Civilizations II on their forum, because the game has no copy protection.

I guess that shows what kind of company Starforce really is.

[chrashoverraid]

an admin posted it......I hope he get fired and i hope that the starforce copy protections will be forbidden.

[LooDos]

Starforce really suxxx...
now they are on the same level as the CP crackers!

[Underheaven]

...

devils advocate:

I don't think most of the employees of Starforce would have agreed to posting that link on their own forum. They could have done just like Galactic Civilizations did and take a screenshot and blur out bad details (URL, parts of torrent filename(s)). But this was definitely a mistake on the Starforce Admin's part and can be viewed by some people as a greedy move. But I don't think whomever posted that link actually intented any financial harm.

[Reef]

They also made a sticky on their forum about the so-called 'rootkit' in Daemon Tools...

Looks like Starforce people can't handle defeat

[al1uk]

ha!! now lets see starforce complain about DT helping piracy. :-)

[arisma]

At the end it will be that a company obligatorily has to pay to other so this one creates a protection.

This company of course must put this protection, sell this game/program more expensive cause they have to pay a protection that donґt want.

They already have a good "protection", some services like frequently updates, a good license and etc.

[Mystique]

ROFLMAO

They want stop Piracy with they own CopyProtection and now they support Piracy with posting links to WarezSites.

The Galactic Civilizations II Devs now never wanna buy StarForce Protection, not after this posting from the Admin. StarForce lam0rs.....

[DarkG]

Starforce makers: idiots or a**holes?!

http://www.gamespot.com/news/6145864.html

Read the story and share what you think. Personally i take the latter option!

[FordPrefect]

Maybe they really just made a mistake. Who knows.
They apologized for it and removed the link.
Also the game's lead designer said after correspondence with Starforce: "I don't think there was any sort of malicious intent"
I think this incident is cleared.

[arisma]

Maybe they really just made a mistake. Who knows.
They apologized for it and removed the link.
Also the game's lead designer said after correspondence with Starforce: "I don't think there was any sort of malicious intent"
I think this incident is cleared.

I think so too, but they have spent of clever

[Vandal06]

UbiSoft being sued because of SF?

Anyone else heard this? Is it true?



http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20060331/1549225.shtml

[JoelEllison]

I don't know about your article but Penny Arcade did a comic on the Galactic Civilizations II thing. Oddly its titled "In League With Demonic Forces" which is definitely not referring to daemon tools.

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/03/15