… because if they did they would know better than to try to intimidate Cory Doctorow for criticising their products. They would know that an effect to chill certain kinds of free speech is almost certainly going to provoke a backlash. It’s really not such a difficult concept.
Doctorow recently revealed that the Starforce anti-copying technology uses hidden malware which is installed onto gamers’ computers without permission or notification. He also noted that Starforce installs a driver that can seriously degrade the performance of a CD drive on a Windows PC.
As usual, Linux and Mac users need not worry about this sillyness.
Updare: The Consumerist is covering this story - I think it’s about to get very big.
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