OT: Creators of Starforce = Mafia?

[Renegade 13]

Linkage (http://forums.galciv2.com/?ForumID=161&AID=106741)

Quote below taken from news above.


For example, we were quite disturbed to discover that the company that makes Starforce provided a working URL to a list of pirated GalCiv II torrents. I'm not sure whether what they did was illegal or not, but it's troubling nevertheless and was totally unnecessary.



Now this might just be me...but what right does a company supposedly dedicated to protecting companies from game piracy have to openly and blatently give out links for anyone to see where illegal copies of a game are available for download?

Reminds me of the way the Mafia works. Pay us (Starforce company) to use our "protection" system (Starforce) or we'll break your legs (show people where to pirate your game).

Just another reason (if you needed one!) to not buy Starforce protected games, if this is the way they do business.

[Fyron]

Why would you still have considered buying starforce protected games yesterday, after all the news of starforce screwing up computers and destroying optical drives?

[Renegade 13]

I personally have never had any problems with games protected by Starforce.

However, the two games I have with Starforce copy protection on them, I acquired and installed before I had any knowledge of their "side-effects". Their drivers have since been uninstalled, and no further games with their form of protection have been bought/installed, ever since I found out about their hardware "issues".

I suppose the way I put it in my original post it sounded like this was a new thing for me, not buying their crap. It isn't, and I've edited for clarity http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif

[Ed Kolis]

Phew, until I opened this thread I thought you were talking about Starfire, and that they were going to sue Aaron Hall for stealing all their ideas! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/eek.gif

[Strategia_In_Ultima]

More Linkage (http://www.gamerevolution.com/static/index.php?section=feature&sub=gizmondo&page=index)

[narf poit chez BOOM]

After reading all that, I just have one question: Where's the rogue cop who's been suspended for obsessing over the case?

[bearclaw]

Renegade 13 said:
I personally have never had any problems with games protected by Starforce.



Didn't you have your CD drive die on you not too long ago? Maybe you were having troubles and just didn't know it?

[Renegade 13]

bearclaw said:

Renegade 13 said:
I personally have never had any problems with games protected by Starforce.


Didn't you have your CD drive die on you not too long ago? Maybe you were having troubles and just didn't know it?


You know...I never even thought of that. It was a CD-RW drive, just up and died it seemed...but that was after installing a game with Starforce. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/shock.gif

[Strategia_In_Ultima]

"'Ave you takeen care of zee drive?"
"Eet sleeps wiss zee fishees....."

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Do fish sleep?

[Renegade 13]

They 'sleep with the humans' and given styrofoam shoes!

[Baron Munchausen]

hehe...

I think what he is asking is whether fish 'sleep' like we do. And as far as I know most of them do not, though they do have dormant periods where they hide if they have a 'home' to hide in, or just drift slowly if not. But they can be roused pretty quickly if disturbed in this state. It's not like 'sleep' in mammals where you are totally unaware of what's going on around you. Aquatic mammals have to do something weird where one half of their brain 'sleeps' while the other half stays awake because they can't afford to stop swimming.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

I heard about that for dolphins, but I wasn't sure about other swimming animals. Thanks.

(Yes, I do occasionally ask a totally sensical question)

[Renegade 13]

Sharks for one never truly 'sleep' since water must be constantly flowing through their gills, propelled by their motion through the ocean. If they stop, they suffocate. They're one species that half the brain is dormant with the other active, then vise versa.