Some of you have a lot of respect for them because they have such a hard copy protection, others hate them for it. However Star-Force is currently known as one of the companies that develops hard to defeat copy protections. Every CD Freak that has ever tried to backup a disc protected by the Star-Force copy protection knows that it's not easy. Although the company seems to be technology wise on many points making it superior to it's competitors fortunately does not enjoy the largest market share. However the company is rapidly gaining popularity amongst software publishers and its latest announcement states that the company will become active in other markets as well.
The company has announced the StarForce Protection Studio which is targeted to various groups. These are e.g. developers and publishers of games and other software, companies that deliver software over the internet and those who want to release only small batches of their software.
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"The protection implementation process can be a complex one, consisting of several steps that require knowledge and experience in both technical as well as commercial aspects," says Oleg Salyakhov, Technical Director of StarForce. "Thus, the stages of the entire process are often shared between several responsible people within the project group. The architecture of the StarForce Protection Studio is therefore designed to help organize the protection application workflow in the most convenient way, and also provides advanced tools to coordinate those different work phases." Protection Studio goes further than being just a copy protection solution. As a comprehensive protection platform, it includes superior code protection, advanced anti-emulation, and flexible activation and licensing technologies combined into a single easy to manage solution. A customer simply selects a solution matching the company's specific needs, and proceeds from there. Along with its superb product use control features, the protection provides a wide range of business development opportunities. Activation and licensing technologies open up additional marketing possibilities, including license distribution control, product activation statistics, market demand research, client promotion and much more. StarForce Protection Studio is built on a comprehensive approach to a software product protection, which, based on the company's seven-year experience in heavily pirated IT-markets, has proved to be effective in USA and EA countries as well. StarForce supports protection on every stage of the product development cycle, be it beta, demo, a localized version, a release or an update. Moreover, Protection Studio features MMO games and Internet sales protection and supports both the on-demand and buy-and-download schemes. |
Although every copy protection can most likely be cracked over time, the copy protection developers are rapidly winning a lot of the time. The longer it takes before a copy protection gets defeated the more people will give up. Discuss copy protection issues in our Copy Protection Forum!
Source: Star-force
