The relevant protection brands are Audio/Video, C++ Obfuscator, Crypto, Content, Disc, E-m@il, MMOG, ProActive (additional versions for businesses and traders), and Universal.

[3][4] StarForce 3.0 has received criticism for installing its own device driver onto computers along with the protected product,[5] which is generally not uninstalled along with the software[citation needed] (Peter Jackson's King Kong being one exception).

Colin McRae: DIRT, however, both asks the player for permission to install the drivers and includes a help file with information on how to remove them.

StarForce's customers include Russian Railways, Corel, 1C, Mail.ru, Aeroflot, SUN InBev Russia, AMD, ATC International, MediaHouse, Russobit-M, New Disc, Buka, Snowball, 2Play, GFI, Cenega and Akella.

[8] On March 5, 2006, a StarForce employee publicly posted a working link[16] to a BitTorrent search engine listing of Galactic Civilizations II torrents during a discussion about the popularity of the game.

[18] Stardock also posted an article,[19] partially in response to inaccurate reporting of their own reasons for releasing the game without copy protection.

StarForce later closed the thread, posting an apology and stating that the employee "just wanted to show that every non-protected game can be cracked".