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Boing Boing Threatened By Software Creator

Posted by Zonk on from the wah-wah-wah-all-the-way-home dept.

mfh writes "StarForce has issued threats to Boing Boing's Cory Doctorow in retaliation to Cory's post about the anti-copy malware that installs itself along with many popular (and unpopular) video games." From the BoingBoing post: "Yesterday, I posted about StarForce, a harmful technology used by game companies to restrict their customers' freedom. StarForce attempts to stop game customers from copying their property, but it has the side-effects of destabilizing and crashing the computers on which it is installed. Someone identifying himself as 'Dennis Zhidkov, PR-manager, StarForce Inc.' contacted me this morning and threatened to sue me, and told me that he had contacted the FBI to complain about my 'harassment.'"

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  1. In soviet Russia... by Loether · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    In Soviet Russia software pirates you! sorry.

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  2. POLL: OK... a Show of Hands... by eno2001 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    How many of you actually take anything posted on Slashdot seriously anymore?

    Think about it. Sure, the editorial staff has always been a bit subpar and the quality of the stories has dropped considerably since /. started. But the real problem are the people who flooded in during the dotbomb boom. (Note: I've been on Slashdot from the very beginning and have had several accounts) As soon as people here started getting obsessed with how technology can be used to make money, and political aspects of technology, it all went to hell. Here's an example. Something that SHOULD be front page news: xen.sourceforge.net has some pretty incredible virtualization technology and it's only getting better as Intel and AMD roll out their hardware support for virtualization (VTx and Pacifica respectively). But I've never seen any mention of this on the front page. I mean this IS a "geek" site after all. What are most geeks interested in? COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY. Virtualization on the x86 platform being the biggest thing to hit in decades. And it's NOT being covered on /.? What gives?

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  3. ...or that... by JourneyExpertApe · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    ...FBI stands for "Female Body Inspector".

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