[geeks] value of PIII PC servers

[Phil Stracchino]

Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> Fri, 23 Jun 2006 @ 18:24 -0400, Phil Stracchino said:
> 
> 
>>I didn't realize StarForce would puke if there were emulated drives
>>present *even if the game CD was in a physical drive*.
> 
> 
> You mean you underestimated the stupidity of Starforce?  :)
> 
> Ubisoft finally bowed under pressure and has abandoned Starforce.

Good!  maybe I can safely get Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter after all.  :)

> Besides that, what it does is just plain wrong, period.
> 
> All Starforce or any other protection system does is punish the loyal
> buyers, while the pirates just break the protection and use it anyway.

Yup.  I've always suspected software vendors lose more sales because of
overly intrusive copy protection software than they do to piracy anyway.


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