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Citing "complaints," the publisher ends its relationship with the copyright-protection provider.

Following several days of rumors, Ubisoft has officially confirmed that it will no longer use the controversial digital-rights software from Starforce. "Ubisoft has decided to use an alternative copy protection system to Starforce for upcoming releases," said a rep for the company. The announcement means that Starforce software will not be included in Heroes of Might and Magic V, the publisher's much-anticipated forthcoming PC role-playing game.

Ubisoft's decision caps weeks of controversy surrounding Starforce. In Mid-march, an employee of the Russian-German-Chinese-Cypriot company was accused of posting a link to a site where users could illegally download Stardock's space-sim Galactic Civilizations II: Dread Lords. Shortly, thereafter, Aspyr Media decided to sever its relationship with Starforce and remove its software from its forthcoming game, Spellforce 2: Shadow Wars.

Ubisoft's motivation for ending its agreement with Starforce was more personal. At the end of March, the company was slapped with a $5 million lawsuit by gamers who claimed that Starforce's DRM system compromised the security of their PCs. "We are currently investigating complaints about alleged problems with Starforce’s software," said the Ubisoft rep.

By Tor Thorsen -- GameSpot
Posted Apr 13, 2006 5:56 pm PT

http://www.gamespot.com/news/6147655.html

Good news. :)

Great news ... thanks for the heads-up ... 8)

Excellent! :D

Now lets hope the rest trully follows. To hell with Starforce.
There are not many companys i wish to go bankrupt but this is one of them.
Sigh, breaking hardware.......what are they thinking. :evil:

Now lets hope the rest trully follows. To hell with Starforce.
There are not many companys i wish to go bankrupt but this is one of them.
Sigh, breaking hardware.......what are they thinking. :evil:

i no!!!!!..i agreeeeee!!!!!!!! :x

Malware looses again !!

Tutorial: Starforce© Removal Tool

I hate Starforce, but love TrackMania Nations... Oh, what to do.

Play it anyway. It hasn't caused any trouble for me...........

Can someone pleae explain to me why they need piracy protection on a free game? Putting starforce on trackmania nations sounds like the stupidest thing in the world to me.

Now if only Ubisoft would release patches to remove the starforce from their games. If so, I would glady installing Kong and Splinter Cell Chaos Theory among others.