Tuesday, April 04, 2006

Starforce update

I do not want to get to wrapped up in this sort of banter as it just winds up looking fanatical, but this bears addressing.

I must admit, It takes a large pair of 'cahones' to build a fake web site that simultaneously praises your own product and denounces all problems as the ramblings of hackers and pirates. The site lists other programs that have similar permissions as Starforce, note the majority are antivirus programs.
Until this point I honestly had hope that the idea behind Starforce being run by a collection of jackasses was only a possibility. Hopefully companies like UBISOFT will realize the type of mistake they have made in endorsing that POS that is STARFORCE. This type of behaviour truly benefits no one and, in the end, screws the user that much more.
What really gets me is that, even in their own forums, customers are chastized for calling shenanigans on the devs of this company. They still completely deny their product has ANY incompatibility, they simply respond with 'where is your proof?' or 'I went to school so my product is beyond reproach'. This type of ridiculous circular bullcrap is the norm in politics right now, I can see it catching on to other industries as well.

Ugh, to say I'm disgusted is an understatement.