![]() You’re putting your trust into the admins and other people that have power on the servers." "If you think about Teamspeak and Ventrilo, they’re very fragmented and sharded communities. Other solutions that players have used for generations include Teamspeak and Ventrillo, but these types of services are even more porous than Skype. There's also a Curse tool for Minecraft.Ĭomperda said that while Curse is primarily ad supported, and their Curse client offers a premium subscription, the Voice tool doesn't have ads and will always be free to use. Eventually it will be fully integrated into the Curse client, which among other features allows for mod and addon management for games like World of Warcraft, The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim and World of Tanks. The Curse Voice product is completely free, Comperda told Polygon. I think it has a huge benefit to any gamer that wants to try it out." So, I don’t know if Curse Voice is the answer to all of these things, but I think it’s a disruptive product. both of those are intrusions, and they are affecting a person’s virtual life or real life. And the reason that I lump together swatting and DDOS is because. People attempt to DDOS our websites pretty much every day. "We’re all gamers, so we’ve actually experienced DDOS’ ourselves. ![]() "We work with a lot of streamers," Comperda said. Limiting the number of connections reduces the number of vectors that attackers have to finding your IP address while you game online, and an IP address Comperda said can lead to things like DDOS attacks and, ultimately, swattings. And if you’re in a call there’ll be one additional connection just to that cloud-powered voice host. "With Curse Voice you’ll actually see one connection that persists, and that’s direct connection to one of our servers that we host in the cloud. You will see dozens, if not hundreds, of connections out on the internet. "Open your Windows Task Manager," while you're making a call with Skype, Comperda said. The secret to their system, Comperda said, was that while other solutions - including Skype - rely on peer-to-peer connections, Curse Voice is a cloud-based system. It’s not only a technology solution here, but it really is a product solution where you have this thing that can connect you to all your gamer friends and it protects you so that you can enjoy Skype or Facebook for your real-life relationships." And I think that’s where Curse Voice fits in. "But when you’re playing games, I think there’s a legitimate need in the community and in the market for a product that is very much a gamer identity. You generally interact with your family and friends and generally we don’t have to worry about those people swatting us or DDOSing us. "When you look at products like Skype or Google Hangouts and Facebook," Comperda told Polygon, "those things are very personal. Video game swatter faces five years in prison, additional charges
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