StarForce - The PC CD-ROM DRM that broke your Computer | MVG

In 2003, Russian Company 'Protection Technologies' released a new form of Copy Protection for PC Games. Known as StarForce - in this episode, we take a closer look at the protection, how it works and how it caused much controversy in PC CDROM gaming in the mid 2000s ► Consider supporting me - https://www.patreon.com/ModernVintageGamer Voice Over Credits and Thanks : ► FrameRater - https://www.youtube.com/c/framerater ► Alexander Mejia - https://www.youtube.com/humaninteract ► KelpHelp - https://www.youtube.com/kelphelp ► FacingWorlds Blue Screen of Death Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aT9r3ZFErY ► SoftICE Cracking Tutorial-01 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uk9FQ2XOqDc Links : ► StarForce Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StarForce ► Cory Doctrow - "Anti-Copying Malware installs itself with dozens of games" - https://web.archive.org/web/20081224205117/http://www.boingboing.net/2006/01/30/anticopying-malware-.html ► Reloaded StarForce Docs - http://www.glop.org/files/rld-sfrt.rar Social Media Links : ► Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/ModernVintageGamer ► Twitter : https://twitter.com/ModernVintageG ► IG: https://instagram.com/ModernVintageGamer ► BandCamp : https://modernvintagegamer.bandcamp.com/ ► The Real MVP Podcast : https://player.fm/series/the-real-mvp #StarForce #DRM