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| pigfister (Inactive) 4 February 2006 4:46 |
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"I doubt a woman would be so evil as to create something like this"
i am a degree student studing computing and i am afraid to say the pc coding(c++)is very much, male dominated.
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| sammorris (AfterDawn Addict) 4 February 2006 7:35 |
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it is, yes, But that's not ruling out the possibility.
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| rosco40 (Newbie) 4 February 2006 13:05 |
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"StarForce is a joke,seems RELOADED cracked all there protection.
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| pigfister (Inactive) 4 February 2006 13:11 |
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Any code can be cracked eventually but it set a president on how copy protection works, starforce affects your end user rights any was also easily exploited to run malicious code but they were never questioned about it unlike Sony recently, why?
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| 30gipod (Inactive) 4 February 2006 14:15 |
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Maybe i'm wrong here but isnt threating to sue and call the FBI a type of terrorism?
So in effect isnt he call the FBI on himself?
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| jag1050 (Newbie) 5 February 2006 6:01 |
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It's kind of funny, the recent thing about the Dutch posting a comic about a muslim prophet in their newspaper, an outcry across the muslim world sparked boycotts and demands to repeal the comic from the newspaper. But the Dutch claim it to be part of their free speech act and their government and the UN is backing them up, and here is somebody who is trying to sue people to stop using their right to free speech and he thinks it will win, I think the odds will not favor him highly in court, international or otherwise.
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| ZippyDSM (AfterDawn Addict) 5 February 2006 10:49 |
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SOunds like nomal corpate blight to me,they wont do soemthing thats commen sence,they would rather get sued and lose......
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| pigfister (Inactive) 5 February 2006 12:06 |
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The best place to head to for great info on starforce protection is Boycott Starforce Spread the word PPL in all forums you visit, lets get rid of this copy protection that affects your user right to make a backup of your legitimate software!
http://www.glop.org/starforce/ |
| sammorris (AfterDawn Addict) 5 February 2006 12:59 |
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Thanks for that link, I'd like to join in, but not buying games with SF on is difficult, it's so good at what it does that downloading games with it is very hard, that is without increasing the damage it would normally do by disabling it...
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| pigfister (Inactive) 6 February 2006 1:12 |
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| sammorris (AfterDawn Addict) 6 February 2006 1:53 |
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Maybe, but we don't want people to be looked on as the authority on stopping illegal businesses like SF, they've probably enough to do as it is...
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| ZippyDSM (AfterDawn Addict) 6 February 2006 2:16 |
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BTW anyone know how hard it is to build something similar to what ID's Q3,Q4 online serial setup is? I think thats the best copy protection I have seen its simple and works great.
What are the best Copy protections for games something that dose'nt annoy the end user to death and yet gives some protection to the makers?
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| pigfister (Inactive) 6 February 2006 4:53 |
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the best copy protection would allow you to backup and use the backup and fight piracy. so some sort of online or telephone activation like ms windows but software companies seem reluctant to take this route as it means employing ppl to man the phones as not everyone has an internet connection. what happened with steam and half life 2?
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| whoozhe (Junior Member) 6 February 2006 8:01 |
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"I have also contacted the FBI, because what you are doing is harassment."
The Federal Bureau for Industry
Problem easily solved. Don't buy their software and watch for the Vacant Lot sign
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| sammorris (AfterDawn Addict) 6 February 2006 8:20 |
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Not investigation then!
Lol, might as well be.
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| ZippyDSM (AfterDawn Addict) 6 February 2006 12:05 |
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pigfister
Uhg dont talk about steam around me that lil pice of big brother baby sitting all everythign you do with the game is just messed up.
IDs online key checker is ahell of alot faster stable and simple if you are online to checks the key when not online it dosent care hell they even released a update to remove the cd protection for Quake 4..even tho that game reeks ><!,HL2s steam forces you to update befor paly makeing pll suffer on dailup,lvl,mod and other info is montiored by steam,there is a offline mode but once you update it is forced into Online mode.
Bascily Steam is annoying,bukly,hell on dailup(well everything is hell on dail up but when you have to have the 30MB update to paly...not to mention the frist 2 or 3 updates are more than 70MB),I refuse to deal with it even tho HL2 is good of corse there are now 100's of craks and hacks I might buy it now and remove steam from it :3 the downside of no steam is no mods ;_;
In the end if you dont mind them haveing a hand in your data,constant updates and you have a desent DSL or better net connection then steam shouldnt to BAD to use.
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| pigfister (Inactive) 6 February 2006 13:15 |
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Sarcasm dude, Steam sucks big time!
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| pigfister (Inactive) 6 February 2006 13:16 |
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| Winter01 (Newbie) 6 February 2006 20:22 |
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Pigfister said: "the best copy protection would allow you to backup and use the backup and fight piracy. so some sort of online or telephone activation like ms windows but software companies seem reluctant to take this route as it means employing ppl to man the phones as not everyone has an internet connection. what happened with steam and half life 2? "
They could always use a third party registration website, something along the lines of EA Games relationship with Gamespy. At least for the games intended for playing online, as Battlefield 2 is.
Just a thought.
Winter
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| nookie3 (Newbie) 6 February 2006 21:17 |
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I think the entertainment industry as with others, need a big reality check. If software costs were more reasonable then perhaps piracy wouldn’t be so prolific. Let’s face it; if I was to take an educated guess, most of the offenders are ones that can’t afford the initial $99.0 game price tag. What’s worse is that six months down track the game goes for around half that. So why not wait? Well for most people the good games are like a drug and people want them now to play, not tomorrow. For shame to the manufactures is all I say. If the manufactures spent less energy on preventing piracy and more on quality of the game with reasonable margins, then this wouldn’t be an issue at all, would it? I buy my games (yes I am patient).
To be in this industry and expecting, no, knowing that you will able to afford a Ferrari only after doing two years of work is just selfish and greedy, just my opinion. Would it be unreasonable for me to assume that some of these games producers can afford those $500,000 cars?
I suppose the software pirates should be thankful that it is only the drug dealers that kill you when you impact on there profits.
Just give it time…...Remember Governments are there to legislate for big business, not the consumers, we shouldn’t kid ourselves.
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| pigfister (Inactive) 6 February 2006 23:36 |
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the easy way to avoid starforce is to install the game but DONT PLAY IT YET, then get a patch/crack .exe replacement from http://www.gamecopyworld.com/ or http://www.megagames.com/ as it only installs when you click on the run icon so how does that stop piracy i ask myself? this way will also let you play your backups ppl just make sure there is a .exe replacement b4 you purchase the game! |
| sammorris (AfterDawn Addict) 7 February 2006 0:29 |
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A cracked exe is how it's usually done, but in this case I think it needs something more. Usually what i've found Gamecopyworld/megagames tell you to do is use an IDE disable program and then overwrite it, it's a bit bum-about-face really and isn't all that reliable. if there is a straight exe that's fantastic, but i haven't found one for a single game as of yet...
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| pigfister (Inactive) 7 February 2006 0:34 |
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this is the link for the most upto date crack for silent hunter 3 http://m0004.gamecopyworld.com/games/pc_silent_hunter_3.shtmli have got mine working today with no sign of starforce. it is called Silent Hunter 3 v1.4b [ENGLISH] No-DVD/Fixed EXE but the official patch you use on silent hunter says patched to 1.3 but it is the 1.4 patch. |
| sammorris (AfterDawn Addict) 7 February 2006 0:36 |
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Oh well, one works then!
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| DaOsT (Senior Member) 7 February 2006 2:21 |
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chuckles cheers for this read the world just gets more bizarre
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http://www.gazholland.co.uk |
| ZippyDSM (AfterDawn Addict) 7 February 2006 4:46 |
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pigfister
Sorry sorry mind is fuzzy ><
and soemtimes its just fuzz mew 0-o
I have a brain...I think...... |
I guess if you don't like what everyone says about your harmful anti-consumer products, you can always attempt to shut them up by threatening to sue them and contact the FBI for apparent "harassment". At least that's how StarForce does business. StarForce copy protection can be found mainly on PC games, which are then referred to as "StarForce crippled" by some of its critics, including Cory Doctorow at 
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