Comments on: StarFarce threatens Doctorow http://www.p2pnet.net/story/7785 p2pnet.net - reader powered Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:36:32 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/7785/comment-page-1#comment-33294 Reader's Write Fri, 03 Feb 2006 08:07:21 +0000 #comment-33294 StarForce is a Russian software company that claims to have offices is Moscow, China, and Cyprus. The e-mail sent to Cory doctorow is very typical Russian blather and bluster in an attempt to intimidate. It's not surprising that their 'protection' scheme operates much like a virus, as the former USSR had a very keen interest in such things and spent a great deal money researching and developing such things as 'munitions' in the end stages of the Cold War. There was a great deal of emphasis on these 'techniques' in the State run technological universities at the time. This individual is very likely wholly unfamiliar with international law, and certainly US Law. I doubt he filed a report with the FBI unless he submitted something via the FBI's website. I doubt he actually went to the US Embassy in Moscow to file a report with the DoJ rep there. His 'USLawyer' is probably his cousin Mishka, who was a lawyer in Russia, but now lives in Brighton Beach and runs a shady on-line camera store out of the back of an autobody shop on Coney Island Avenue. The only thing that's likely to come of this will be a few more abrasive e-mails, but no lawsuit is ever going to get filed against anyone. It's all just an empty threat, not unlike a certain DRM company and the "shift key" incident. --TurboGeek StarForce is a Russian software company that claims to have offices is Moscow, China, and Cyprus. The e-mail sent to Cory doctorow is very typical Russian blather and bluster in an attempt to intimidate.

It’s not surprising that their ‘protection’ scheme operates much like a virus, as the former USSR had a very keen interest in such things and spent a great deal money researching and developing such things as ‘munitions’ in the end stages of the Cold War. There was a great deal of emphasis on these ‘techniques’ in the State run technological universities at the time.

This individual is very likely wholly unfamiliar with international law, and certainly US Law. I doubt he filed a report with the FBI unless he submitted something via the FBI’s website. I doubt he actually went to the US Embassy in Moscow to file a report with the DoJ rep there.

His ‘USLawyer’ is probably his cousin Mishka, who was a lawyer in Russia, but now lives in Brighton Beach and runs a shady on-line camera store out of the back of an autobody shop on Coney Island Avenue.

The only thing that’s likely to come of this will be a few more abrasive e-mails, but no lawsuit is ever going to get filed against anyone. It’s all just an empty threat, not unlike a certain DRM company and the “shift key” incident.

–TurboGeek

]]> By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/7785/comment-page-1#comment-33241 Reader's Write Thu, 02 Feb 2006 21:58:32 +0000 #comment-33241 Strange his name is "Dennis" but his e-mail address is "Denis" like "Penis" Strange his name is “Dennis” but his e-mail address is “Denis” like “Penis”

]]> By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/7785/comment-page-1#comment-33240 Reader's Write Thu, 02 Feb 2006 21:48:17 +0000 #comment-33240 Why is law suits the first course....what every happened to bribery or reason. Why is law suits the first course….what every happened to bribery or reason.

]]> By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/7785/comment-page-1#comment-33151 Reader's Write Thu, 02 Feb 2006 03:20:42 +0000 #comment-33151 Star Force was an Arcade game I played in the 80s, can THEY be forced to change name based on a trade mark legal issue? I am asking just because I like to hurt assholes. Star-Force deserves all bad publicity it can get, if the guy being sued is actually saying the truth. Anyhow, DRMs and copy protection are only in the best interest of manufactures and sellers, not of consumers. I currently buy only music CDs, granted they aren't copy protected, so that I can rip the tracks to ogg format. Corporations use of DRM is scaring people away. Star Force was an Arcade game I played in the 80s, can THEY be forced to change name based on a trade mark legal issue? I am asking just because I like to hurt assholes. Star-Force deserves all bad publicity it can get, if the guy being sued is actually saying the truth. Anyhow, DRMs and copy protection are only in the best interest of manufactures and sellers, not of consumers. I currently buy only music CDs, granted they aren’t copy protected, so that I can rip the tracks to ogg format. Corporations use of DRM is scaring people away.

]]> By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/7785/comment-page-1#comment-33139 Reader's Write Thu, 02 Feb 2006 02:09:49 +0000 #comment-33139 Me thinks Dennis will have the opportunity to send out plenty more threating e-mails in response to the buttload of nastygrams he will undoubtedly receive... Here's that e-mail address one more time if you missed it. denis.zhidkov@star-force.com ;-) Me thinks Dennis will have the opportunity to send out plenty more threating e-mails in response to the buttload of nastygrams he will undoubtedly receive…

Here’s that e-mail address one more time if you missed it.
denis.zhidkov@star-force.com

;-)

]]> By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/7785/comment-page-1#comment-33136 Reader's Write Thu, 02 Feb 2006 00:37:57 +0000 #comment-33136 "had contacted the FBI to complain about my "harassment." Anyonw can complain about anything to anyone, be it FBI, the president or the pope. Means absolutely nothing. “had contacted the FBI to complain about my “harassment.”

Anyonw can complain about anything to anyone, be it FBI, the president or the pope. Means absolutely nothing.

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