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BBspot – New Starforce DRM Uses CD Made from Plastic Explosives

From the always excellent BBspot: ‘New Starforce DRM Uses CD Made from Plastic Explosives’.

“Not only does this protect the software from being copied, but it also prevents the copier from ever copying anything again. If we’re lucky we’ll also take out his hacker brother and maybe a few pirate friends too,” said Starforce director of marketing Simon Weasly.

Yeah, it’s satire; but it’s only pushing this idea to the next stage…