Typical and shows they want to suppress the issues. Sounds like a communistic plot to me. You do know where S-F is made don't you? ;)

Lets not politocize starforce. The communists wouldn't have much need for a DRM anyway.

Its all about money.

It is all about money - and probably all about the Russian mob the way I read the death threats as described in this thread.

Oh, a very restrictive DRM could have been useful. No copying at all, of anything, without permission (to stop anti-communist messages). More intrusive DRM can also be expected here.

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/tcpa-faq.html

(some acronyms have changed since that document was made)

And to further add to what Wim Libaers is saying, check here.... http://www.againsttcpa.com/what-is-tcpa.html

Remember George Orwell's book "1984"? Well, it is coming soon to a computer near you. Key word being Fritz-Chip.

This is scarry and everyone should be very very afraid. Computers and the internet will change drastically in the near future. Especailly when Windows Vista hits us. "Big Brother" will really be watching everything you say and do. You will not be able to protest anything. If you do you will face fines and prison. All software will be licensed, nothing free will be able to be run at all. Your cohones will not be yours anymore. As if they are now. LOL

And for the nay sayers, read everything you can on this. This is no joke as it will affect everyone world wide. Even your phone will be a part of it, especially for those with VoIP, PDAs and cell phones.

Enjoy what you have now. ;)

The interview with me and a few others, including Starforce's PR, will be in Cyber Shack's episode 317, coming the 22nd of February.

This week, however, Cyber Shack had a SHORT segment about Starforce. You can hear episode 316 here. Keep in mind that four more interviews will be coming on next week's episode.

Hello all, I know alot of you are wondering what has been going on?
Well yours truly and 13thhour have been getting info to you as best we can. Now Cyber Shack brings you some info from:
Dennis Zhidkov (StarForce Technologies)
Steven Levy (Newsweek magazine)
Dan Mattia (Game-Overdrive.com)
Larry Freese (Consumer Rights Activist)

I also want to add that alot of the interview with myself was deleted for length requirements I'm sure. My interview was approximately an hour. I want to add that I do NOT use nor have I ever used Daemon Tools or Alcohol 120% and yet I still had a CDRW drive fail! That did not get on the interview your about to listen to. Among many other facts.

Listen to it several times to get the full affect of people like Steven Levy and what they have to say.

The web page:
http://cybershack.com/comments.asp?id=453

Direct feed click here

Thanks.

"Why should I have this (SF) on my computer, I'm not a pirate".

Really pointless. Maybe the installation menu should let the user check [x] "I am not a pirate, I will not make copies of this game" and then it will skip installing SF.... :-?

And one guy says the blame goes to both the publisher and SF.... forgeting someone?

Very good summary by the host, though. :up:

Yes I agree very good summary. This sort of stuff brings up ratings. I'm a Radio Announcer myself. Plus as you well know Media is suppose to take a neutral stance until the the story comes to an end.

:up:

I believe Dan made that comment. Is there anything you would like to add to it?

The question I was asked was who is at blame for the problems Starforce is causing.

Yes, the hackers are the #1 reason, but a) that's kind of obvious, b) there's alternative methods, as I also detailed.

The publishers have known about the problems for at least a year. They have done nothing to fix these problems, even going so far to ban those against Starforce from their forums. And Starforce openly calls everyone who has a problem with Starforce "beginner-level hackers".