Sun, 12 Mar 2006

Games CEO finds himself reluctant warez hero

Wow. Does anybody still think the folks pushing copy protection on everything are anything close to ethical? This is like anti-virus vendors distributing malware to sell more product. Unbelievable!

When Stardock CEO Brad Wardell released his game sequel Galactic Civilizations II recently, he had no idea he'd find himself mistakenly hailed as a poster child for the anti-copyright lobby. Or that a DRM company that makes copy protection for games would post details of where they could download illicit copies of his game.

(link) [The Register]

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