Starforce Boycott website.
 

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y16..._Starforce.jpg
Check out this website, it's dedicated to fighting starforce and its immoral infringement on our rights.

there are a lot of details on the site, so i won't paste them all here, click to view them in original form.

yet another reason why I play on a console.

thanks for the alert...

Grrrr...I have like 3 versions of it on my machine. I'm overdue for an fdisk.

there's a starforce removal util on that site. feel free to spread the message :)

WTF is Starforce?

you could look at the link i posted instead of asking me... it's a cd copy protection system which installs drivers on your computer and is known to conflict with certain users' hardware configurations as well as using unethical anti-competative blacklisting techniques against LEGAL and LEGITIMATE Optical drive emulation software.

I personally have a large harddrive and I hate changing CD's ( thus the large HDD ) and it is a pain in the neck to keep changing them. I rip my own legal CDs to play on my own computer for my own enjoyment. I hate companies that try to make that harder on me. It is a game and meant to be enjoyed, not to be toiled with. I agree that I won't use starforce software. I won't buy there games, nor even bother playing their demos. Hopefully there will be enough gamers to take this approach and let them use other forms of copy protection.

Welcome to 2006, you *must* switch your CD to play your games.

@tenchi069
I too dislike changing CD's. I agree. Why do these companies go out of their way to stop you from copying something that you bought with your own money? Putting your system at risk. I would imagine that the majority of gamers invest a lot of money in to their PC's, and yes, let's hope enough of us can be heard and put an end to these fascist taticts.

Also, I too am member at the http://www.glop.org/starforce/ site.

i'd also like to mention that no one can tell you that it's illegal to rip/burn/backup your own cds as long as you don't commercially redistribute them.

[i love how it's mostly people who belong to the site posting in this thread]