Kotaku
Starforce is sleazy, no doubt. Their first transgression was programming and marketing a highly-invasive form of copy protection to begin with. Then they began threatening their critics with frivolous lawsuits. And as icing on the cake, they decided to post torrent links to Galactic Civilization 2 on their website in response to Stardock's criticism of copy-protection in general. It's enough to make a gamer want to break a Starforce-infected cd in half and jab the shards through the vitreous humor of Starforce CEO's eyeballs.
Well, Starforce is still sleazy, but we have to give them props: they have apologized to Stardock for the entire "Everyone warez this game!" fiasco. But it's too little, too late — what else can you say when an anti-warez company squanders its credibility by openly endorsing warez?
Starforce apologizes to Stardock for torrent link [GalCiv2 Forums]
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Because StarForce is not anti-warez. Warez groups can crack StarForce pretty easily. StarForce is designed to annoy people who've purchased the game and prevent them from burning a quick copy for their friends.
StarForce can still suck it.
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