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Originally Posted by mcarlsonus
I remember some years ago, there was quite a stink about Ubi's Starforce protection. Didn't they remove that, or did it just become so annoying they didn't reuse it in SH4 (can't remember!). Starforce DID hurt sales, though - "they" learned THAT particular lesson. I seem to recollect Steam downloads didn't go so well...
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They removed it, but only after they were repeatedly hammered on various forums and in the gaming press about it - including numerous proofs to the effect that Starforce was some seriously nasty malware. They weren't the only ones to use it, but I believe they were the biggest. And, as has been pointed out, once they were finally backed into a corner and forced to act like they cared that their DRM was harming customers' systems, their response was to pirate a crack and make it official.