StarForce is one of the most notoriously inept DRM schemes around, famous for taking over and then screwing up people’s computers. According to Computer Gaming World, StarForce provided a link to an unprotected copy of Galactic Civilizations II: Dread Lord, a PC game that is doing extremely well in retail sales even though it ships without copy protection (Yay!). If StarForce were named Soprano, it’d look like a protection racket.

The Galactic Civilizations’ attitude toward copy protection is admirable and is likely to result in more sales rather than fewer. [Tags: digital_rights galactic_civilizations starforce drm copyright]

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