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The StarForce Mafia From the "For Future Reference" department A guy with two thugs walks into a small corner store and tells the owner: "You've got a nice small business running here. It would be a shame to see it destroyed, but if you pay me 5% of your sales every month, I make sure it ain't gonna hapen." The store owner catches the drift, and knows he'd better pay or the two thugs would trash the store, and break his legs in the process. Another guy approaches a company and says: "You've got a nice product here. Too bad it will be copied by countless users and you'll never make a profit, unless you buy our technology to protect it." Most companies caught the drift. Some were even naive enough to think that this was a genuine offer to help. Unfortunately, as soon as one company refused to pay the protection money, the gig was off, and the Mafia thug was the first one to point out how to copy the product.
The pretense is now gone. What was once considered to be a company that was genuinely interested in fighting software piracy has now showed its true face. It is a group of thugs who will be very happy to encourage piracy if someone doesn't buy their product. |
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