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Galactic Civilizations II Breaks DRM Mold
Machitis writes "A recent news item at GalCiv2.com says, 'Our license allows you to install the game onto as many machines that you own that you want as long as only one copy is being used at once. How many sales are lost because people want to have a game on their laptop and desktop and don't want to drag CDs around so choose not to buy the game? [...] we were quite disturbed to discover that the company that makes Starforce provided a working URL to a list of pirated GalCiv II torrents. I'm not sure whether what they did was illegal or not, but it's troubling nevertheless and was totally unnecessary.'"
I wish someone would have posted a bunch of links to that forum for torrents of games that _are_ protected by Starforce. They aren't hard to find. This was little more than a scare tactic.
I read the internet for the articles.
Dude. iD has had some of the harshest copy protection in history.
Of course, DOOM II is a trademark of id Software,
copyright 1994-95, so don't mess with it. Remember, if you
are playing a pirated copy of DOOM II you are going to HELL.
Buy it and avoid an eternity with all the other freeloaders.
If you have any problems playing DOOM II, please call our
technical support line at (212) 951-3126.
Maybe Starforce are thugs who promote software theft if you don't do business with you, but at least they're not sending you into the Inferno...
StoneCypher is Full of BS
In Soviet Russia, copy-protection cracks YOU!
You just slashdotted The Pirate Bay. No pir8 booty for me. *sigh* guess I'll go look at Carmen Electra's for a while ;)
Still waiting on Serviscope_minor to wake up to fucking reality and realize that Jessica Price isn't going to fuck him.
Every punchline so original...so...so...unexpected
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starforce for the win.