StarForce > Starforce Nightmare

[DarkStar782]

Is it me or has someone committed a bit of thread necromancy here? (reply #9 is 4 months after #8 lol)

I'm not sure, but in Germany if you do ANYTHING to bypass copy proctections they can sue you. Its much stricter that in the US. CORRECT ME IF I AM WRONG. I AM NOT SURE.

I have no idea either, but it seems to me you could base a reasonable defence around 1:1 copies (I think Blindwrite can currently make such disks) and to a lesser extent Emulation, because you are not 'breaking' or 'bypassing' the copy protection, it is still active, it just thinks you are using an original...

I know how Synchro feels about SF, I couldnt get X3 Reunion to run from the original when I first bought it (before I made any attempt whatsoever to back it up), In the end it trasnpired that it was caused by the *lightest* fingerprint imaginable on the disk.

To me this is just absurd. That any CP system should be that fussy about a media that is so easily scratched etc is pathetic, especially as I have NEVER known a CP system that cannot be either cracked, emulated, or 1:1 backed up, meaning that all the CP achieves is pissing of us legitimate customers.