Technical explaination of what Starforce can do to your computer
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Very interesting discussions on the Ubisoft forum.
See 13Hour's post on page 5 of this thread:
http://forums.ubi.com/groupee/forums/a/tpc/f/561108232/m/2871061083/p/5
There's also a link to a Boycott Starforce movement further down the page for the more proactive among us
In other news...the official StarForce forums are inundated with threads linking official statements by game developers and publishers who are announcing they will no longer use or never plan to use StarForce. The StarForce moderators are doing their best to delete/censor these threads, but they're having trouble keeping up
See 13Hour's post on page 5 of this thread:
http://forums.ubi.com/groupee/forums/a/tpc/f/561108232/m/2871061083/p/5
There's also a link to a Boycott Starforce movement further down the page for the more proactive among us
In other news...the official StarForce forums are inundated with threads linking official statements by game developers and publishers who are announcing they will no longer use or never plan to use StarForce. The StarForce moderators are doing their best to delete/censor these threads, but they're having trouble keeping up