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This article is about the warez news website. For the NVIDIA motherboard, see NForce.

NFOrce.nl is a warez news website located in the Netherlands.

NFOrce.nl supplies warez release details by providing a collection of .nfo files for warez games and programs. It does not supply the releases themselves, or information on how to obtain them. Not all release-categories usually found on Topsites are added by the nforce-updaters; for example, mp3s and 0-day releases are omitted. The site also contains a forum, where releases and problems with them are discussed.

NFOrce.nl is similar in its concept to the Isonews website. With the advent of P2P programs and easier internet access to illegally shared software and movies, sites like Isonews and NFOrce have received increasing attention from the public. This media coverage can make the job of moderators difficult, as new users may not always grasp the non-availability-of-warez constraint the website is trying to enforce.

1 Legality
2 Reasons for existence
3 See also
4 External links

[edit] Legality

The website itself is legal, and tries to stay that way (e.g. by erasing serial numbers from the .nfo-files and banning/deleting forum-members who give links to places where others can obtain releases).

[edit] Reasons for existence

Companies can check easily if their products are released to the scene and cracked by which group/cracker (sometimes with in-depth information on how they did it). That gives them the advantage of up to date information on how long their products' copy-protection schemes hold against cracking attempts without requiring them to get involved with the scene itself. NFOrce.nl is also a very good resource for end-users, as its members usually deliver the fastest grass-roots reviews of new games and help to weed out the bad from the buyable games. Another good reason to read the NFOrce.nl forums is the discussion of copy-protection schemes in the latest games and of programs that tell end-users what quirks and crashes they can expect from the ever more invasive approaches of those 'protections' (e.g. installing rootkit-/virus-like drivers that not only often break laws but also break the operating system in unpredictable ways).