Starforce Petition!

[rz22g]

Yes, I am boycotting Starforce games

My system started running strange and I had not even heard of starforce. I found info on it after searching for my system symptoms on the internet. Come to find out Starforce had installed by either a game or demo without my knowledge. It is also annoying now to spend time downloading a demo, going through the install process and then being prompted about starforce. At the very very least, starforce installation should be listed as one of the requirements in the system requirements of the game.

I have gone a step further and cancelled my fileshack account. I feel that they should in some way tag what demos contain starforce and will not continue to use their service until they do. It is bad enough that a game will install Starforce but a DEMO!!!!! Thats just stupid.

[orion731]

I realize that this post is getting huge but I thought I'd add my two cents. Before reading this post I knew very little of starforce and the evilness behind it. I was just aware that it was a form of copy protection but I do realize now it is much more than that. I bought the game Breed and installed it without even realizing it was on the dreaded starforce protected list. What are we supposed to memorize this list when choosing a pc game to buy? After installing I have noticed very weird quirks about my system first being that the starforce somehow messed with my file associations when I tried to doubleclick the DVD drive my Audio cd was inserted in. It said there was no file association attached to it. I specifically remember that when I used to doubleclick the drive with an audio CD inserted it opened in Winamp, my music player of choice. So I quickly downloaded the Starforce clean program from this post and *hopefully* removed this starforce driver from my system. My question that I hope someone can answer is "How do you know for sure if starforce has truley been completely uninstalled from your system." Reformatting is NOT an option. Thanks.