As if enough people weren’t already upset enough with StarForce, the company proved that they are no longer just dabbling in the rights of the users who use its software. No, it seems that the company has actually started to openly pirate video games that do not use it’s copy protection scheme.

Earlier this week Stardock, the publisher for the wildly successful Galactic Civilizations 2 videogame, made the following statement with regard to copy protection:

And here’s another thing to consider — Galactic Civilizations II has no copy protection whatsoever. Not even a CD check. Heck, you can install the game and toss out the CD and use the included serial # (which you don’t even have to use to install) to redownload the entire game from us even years in the future.

This quote was unfortunately horribly taken out of context (view the whole text here), and the original source was removed. After several blogs began to pick up the story “Stardock Wants Piracy,” a StarForce employee posted a working BitTorrent URL to the game in the corporate forums claiming:

Right now several thousands of people are downloading the pirated version only from that web-site. Is it good for the sales? Unlikely. Good game surely would have the high sales rate even if it doesn’t have any copy protection, but not because of that. Good protection is the tool, which increases the rate.

Poor grammar aside, the StarForce employee thought it OK to post a working Torrent link to pirate Galactic Civilizations 2 in order to prove a point. In any case, Stardock (not StarForce), does not want people pirating its game. We’ve been beta testing Galactic Civilizations 2 for months now, it surely warrants a purchase.

There is a fairly large movement to boycott StarForce titles.