Word on Ubisoft official forums points to the company moving away from the controversial Starforce copy protection. This may be partially in response to public outcry, or it might be in response to the class action lawsuit filed against Ubisoft for their use of Starforce on several of their high-profile titles.

Starforce has been on the receiving end of a lot of bad press, starting with a report in Computer Gaming World indicating that in some instances, the Starforce device driver will force a user’s system to slow down or make inoperable a user’s optical drives. There are also complaints from security analysts, who claim that since Starforce operates in ring 0 mode, which can provide an access point for trojans and other malware to attack a user’s system. Recently, an employee or agent of Starforce posted a link to access pirated versions of Galactic Civilizations II as some kind of bizarre retaliatory action against a software publisher that would dare release a game without any kind of disc based copy protection.

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