NEWS: Starforce Enforces Copy Protection by Instant Reboot

From Evil Avatar:

Futuremark has reportedly discovered a new anti-piracy system that is being used by Starforce.

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This copy protection system installs a driver that runs at the highest level of access on the system, which gives it low level access to the PCs hardware and any drivers and processes. This driver runs regardless of whether the game runs; keeping an eye out for any suspicious activity such as attempting to copy a protected disc. If something suspicious is detected, it forces the PC to make an immediate reboot, regardless of any other applications running and whether or not the user has any unsaved work.

What the hell? Do game developers even really check to see what the hell this shit does? Or do they just put this ridiculous "copy protection" on their game just because its the cool thing to do these days?

Oh, if only more people could be like Stardock.