| Star-Force PR VP (likely former KGB) full of BS StarForce is a Russian software company that claims to have offices is Moscow, China, and Cyprus. The e-mail sent to Cory Doctorow is very typical Russian blather and bluster in an attempt to intimidate. \
It's not surprising that their 'protection' scheme operates much like a virus, as the former USSR had a very keen interest in such things and spent a great deal money researching and developing such things as 'munitions' in the end stages of the Cold War. There was a great deal of emphasis on these 'techniques' in the State run technological universities at the time.
This individual is very likely wholly unfamiliar with international law, and certainly US Law. I doubt he filed a report with the FBI unless he submitted something via the FBI's website. I doubt he actually went to the US Embassy in Moscow to file a report with the DoJ rep there.
His 'USLawyer' is probably his cousin Mishka, who was a lawyer in Russia, but now lives in Brighton Beach and works for an on-line camera store operating out of the back of an autobody shop on Coney Island Avenue.
The only thing that's likely to come of this will be a few more abrasive e-mails, but no lawsuit is ever going to get filed against anyone. It's all just an empty threat, not unlike a certain DRM company and the "shift key" incident.
--TurboGeek |
