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I have an love/hate thing with Boing Boing, but they do occa­sion­ally get my atten­tion. For instance, Cory Doc­torow posted a warn­ing about a pro­gram called Star­Force that some game man­u­fac­tur­ers secretly install as part of their games. It can desta­bi­lize your PC by inter­fer­ing with processes it decides could be used to ille­gally copy the games. Now Star­Force is threat­en­ing to sue Doc­torow for crit­i­ciz­ing the product.

I’m so old I remem­ber when anti-copying mea­sures were on the disks and didn’t install them­selves silently into your system.

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