StarForce is a copy protection program used in a number of PC titles such as Brothers in Arms: Earned in Blood and, inexplicably, Trackmania Nations, which is a free-to-distribute title. It's known to install without the player's knowledge and cause instability and even crashes in computers, a claim which the makers refute and blame instead of "beginner-level hackers that try to go around our protection system." You can read more in detail about the woes associated with StarForce here.

It's precisely that article that caused a StarForce representative to threaten to sue the author of the piece, claiming it contains "insults, lies, false accusations and rumors." He goes on to say he has contacted the FBI on the matter "because what you are doing is harassment." It turns out that this isn't the first threat he's made, either; He also wrote a lenghty response to, of all things, a post by a reader on CNet talking about StarForce in the comment thread for their Sony Rootkit article.

What is it with all the loons in this industry lately?

Source: Boing Boing