do u think starForce protection good enough?
Come to see at booth #7039 in Kentia Hall
http://www.star-force.com/news/index.html?view=23

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., --May 22, 2002-- StarForce Technologies is proud to announce the introduction of the newest product in its suite of software protection solutions, StarForce CD-R. StarForce CD-R is being showcased during E3 Expo 2002 in Los Angeles May 21 -24. The special discs, produced through a one-of-a kind manufacturing process are intended to use on ordinary CD-ROM drives. By using this protection at home or at the office, a developer can record data safely to the unique StarForce CD-Rs and be assured that his or her application is safe from unauthorized copying.

Ho Ho I do believe the Moon is made of Cheese

a developer can record data safely to the unique StarForce CD-Rs and be assured that his or her application is safe from unauthorized copying.
There will never be a protection for CD's that someone cannot by-pass if it can be put on it can be took off. Like I have said before send me one and I will send you a back-up back to you.




It's Nice to be Importent But is more importent to be NICE!!!

(in reply to maximano)

I would love to do what you have asked me to do and if I couldn't I certainly know someone who can. But I only buy programs which I intend to use and I only backup them for my own use. If I do buy any with it on you will be the first to know. And I will still say any program can be backed-up and I am in no shape or form in favour of Pirating any software.

You SAY "As for every copy protection being breakable - that may be so, but some of the ones used by the governments of the world to prevent espionage are so complicated that if you made a variation of a copy of the disk every second, someone might be able to break the protection before a 21 year old's future grandchildren died (about a 100 years, give or take - that's an optimistic estimate, it could take centuries longer). Now, as anyone knows, what is possible today at a very secure level, is possible within a short time by the general public. I know nothing about Star Force, but I wouldn't knock it until I had at least seen it."

But you don't have to copy the whole CD just the data.

And as for Star Force are you joining maximano's Advertising staff he looks like he needs someone like you good with the words?


And as for future protection there is always someone wiser than the man who makes it at least 15% of them work for the same company and end leaking information which enables people to get round it.

I remember quite a few years ago from the Amiga days when a Software company in Doncaster,Yorkshire,England (Which by the way is my home town) Told Amiga Format that they were bringing a protection (a dongle and it was the only one ever used.) out on a football management game that that would never be broken and they spent one and a half million uk£ on it and it was unbreakable. I saw it on the local Car Boot sales the very day it came out and it had no protection on it whatsoever and worked just fine.
By the way I had nothing to do with breaking the code.
But that was a lot of years ago and this is now.

It's Nice to be Importent But is more importent to be NICE!!!

(in reply to maximano)

Maximano are you working for Star-Force company or something? You are making too much noise for a protection found one some titles. I do remember CD-Cops were also un-copyable from CloneCD, but only few companies used it...

I think for Tages and Star-Force, a software patch included in the CDR software (like AWS) will be the next solution (or at least the easy solution).

Visit www.cdrinfo.com - The Recording Authority

(in reply to maximano)

http://www.star-force.com is a young company and it's grow...
we'll see what will be later.

(in reply to maximano)

i wish to work for http://www.star-force.com

(in reply to maximano)

I think your WISH has already been granted! If not you are sure working hard to get a job in their Advertising Department!
Laffin Assassin

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But it's more Important to be NICE!!!

(in reply to maximano)

Yeah, he works for them.

I agree with Laffin, for any protection scheme "written" to a disc, it is copyable, they had to make it "writable" and if it's written to a disc the data can be extracted. I agree with Laffin also, I am not for "pirating" at any means, but I do strongly believe in backing my software up. And I will backup every piece of software that I purchase in case of the "fatal disaster".

-Peace-

(in reply to maximano)

u may do backup
visit http://www.star-force.com

(in reply to maximano)

u may do backup?

It's Nice to be Important!!!
But it's more Important to be NICE!!!

(in reply to maximano)

Data sectors of a disc can be copied. Physical parameters of a CD cannot be copied because they depend on the glass master they were made from.
proud of http://www.star-force.com

(in reply to maximano)

is this feature made copying StarForce with CloneCD some trouble ?

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