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  • Anti-Copying Malware Installs Itself With Dozens Of Games

    01/31/2006 10:09:57 AM PST · by steve-b · 14 replies · 655+ views
    BoingBoing ^ | 1/30/06 | Cory Doctorow
    A group of gamers has started a site to spread a pledge to boycott video-games that come with a dangerous anti-copying mechanism.... For example, here's one of the common problems brought by Starforce: under Windows XP, if packets are lost during the reading or writing of a disk, XP interprets this as an error and steps the IDE speed down. Eventually it will revert to 16bit compatibility mode rendering a CD/DVD writer virtually unusable. In some circumstances certain drives cannot cope with this mode and it results in physical hardware failure (Most commonly in multiformat CD/DVD writer drives). A sure...