Hacking and piracy has been around for a long time and really, even the best efforts of the Motion Picture Association, recording companies, Microsoft and others, will never be able to truly stop it. Of course, they are all in Russian.still. In Ukraine, it's worse - as there are CD/DVD vendors on just about every corner offering obviously hacked movies for $3 per CD. In Iraq, we were able to get pre-release versions of many movies about the same time as they were starting to show in theaters stateside.for $5. Piracy is a really big issue outside of the United States and probably the EU. So the question is: how big a problem is piracy and what portion of it can you do anything about - even assuming you would go all the way to annoyance nukes? Also subtract people who end up buying the game only after trying it. But I do think that this is not a useful attitude if it makes the developer turn their weapons on the paying customers. Well, some developers do have a problem of getting their game stolen even if the thief wouldn't have bought it anyway. Is piracy a big problem? Question is how many of the freeloaders would have bought the game if they couldn't steal it. But I do know that harrassing the honest customer with restrictions including requirement to have the CD in the drive, that the pirate does not have (because he uses the crack anyway), is not the way to go. The only reason why so few USB dongle software is cracked is that it is usually only used on highly specialized software that nobody outside a close circle cares about anyway. And the USB dongle is not much safer either, just expensive. So don't tell me better protection was needed. I cannot prove that Starforce is repsonsible, but I never broke a DVD or CD drive like this before and other people report the same thing - Starforce does actually mess with the firmware on your drives. At the time when it entered that wedged state it was in my gaming machine and I played Silent Hunter 3, which is Starforce protected. It's basically broken except for quick use in CD checks in games. I am proud owner of a DVD burner that only does PIO mode anymore, no DMA.
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