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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Fury on April 22, 2009, 06:52:04 am

Title: StarForce protection for Linux and MacOS
Post by: Fury on April 22, 2009, 06:52:04 am: http://www.star-force.com/press_room/news/index.php?news=2404
StarForce was kind enough to provide us a questionnaire as well: http://www.star-force.com/opros/
Title: Re: StarForce protection for Linux and MacOS
Post by: Solatar on April 22, 2009, 06:25:57 pm: ...do they know how Linux works? The whole most-people-use-entirely-open-source-stuff-and-don't-buy-software thing?

As in...is there really a market for this on the Linux platform?

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Attention!
We guarantee that no information getting from this questionnaire won`t be used by the third party or used in any goals except this questionnaire`s goals.

So every bit of information you give them is guaranteed to be used by third parties?
Title: Re: StarForce protection for Linux and MacOS
Post by: Kosh on April 23, 2009, 01:17:10 am: It will be a cold day in hell before I let anything with starforce corrupt my computer.
Title: Re: StarForce protection for Linux and MacOS
Post by: Grizzly on April 23, 2009, 02:36:33 pm: Quote from: Kosh on April 23, 2009, 01:17:10 am
It will be a cold day in hell before I let anything with starforce corrupt my computer.

As it happens, hell just got frozen over.
Title: Re: StarForce protection for Linux and MacOS
Post by: Mikes on April 23, 2009, 02:45:52 pm: Starforce is still alive ?

Must be some publishers out there that haven't learned their lesson yet.

Just vote with your wallet as before, nothing new here, except that Linux/Mac users get to boycott them now too.
Title: Re: StarForce protection for Linux and MacOS
Post by: kode on April 23, 2009, 04:48:46 pm: Quote from: Solatar on April 22, 2009, 06:25:57 pm
...do they know how Linux works? The whole most-people-use-entirely-open-source-stuff-and-don't-buy-software thing?

Nothing about free software says you can't charge for it.
Title: Re: StarForce protection for Linux and MacOS
Post by: Solatar on April 24, 2009, 01:12:05 pm: I just wonder what they're going to use it for? There are plenty of games available for Linux, and if I want to do serious gaming I go over to my Windows partition anyway.

I just can't think of any kind of software I would need to BUY for Linux. I use OpenOffice, free programs, and Finale 2008 works on Wine.
Title: Re: StarForce protection for Linux and MacOS
Post by: Tyrian on April 24, 2009, 05:02:07 pm: *Cringe* *Twitch* Not these guys again. I actually had a CD drive torched by StarForce.

But I guess my question is the same as everyone else's: Why? The only thing I know of that could use StarForce on a Linux environment is NX4, yet they already have license controls in place and those are proprietary...
Title: Re: StarForce protection for Linux and MacOS
Post by: Kosh on April 24, 2009, 08:09:06 pm: Quote from: -Joshua- on April 23, 2009, 02:36:33 pm
Quote from: Kosh on April 23, 2009, 01:17:10 am
It will be a cold day in hell before I let anything with starforce corrupt my computer.

As it happens, hell just got frozen over.

If it isn't at absolute zero it isn't cold enough.
Title: Re: StarForce protection for Linux and MacOS
Post by: ssmit132 on April 24, 2009, 09:18:51 pm: I used to have StarForce because of TrackMania, but now I've updated it to United Forever, it apparently has been removed. Personally I haven't had any trouble with it, but then I've not had any trouble with DRM. :p