The Galactic Civilizations II: Dread Lords Website has a follow-up on the recent dust-up about the non-inclusion of any copy protection in Galactic Civilizations II: Dread Lords (story). The blurb points the way to a story on GameSpot where Stardock's Brad Wardell answers questions about all this, and here's a bit from the statement:

We received email from StarForce today apologizing for the incident. We appreciated them taking down the link. It also gave us the opportunity to request the various meta-torrent sites to remove links to illegal torrents.

In every case, the torrent list site in question responded quickly to our request. One might make the argument that a simple polite email to a meta-torrent search site is as effective as copy protection.

There is probably some irony that this whole thing occurred just before last week's EBGames.com top selling games list got posted on their site. They list Galactic Civilizations II as the top telling PC title and the #2 overall (all platforms). And that was before this incident.

I don't want us to come out like we're on some sort of anti-copy protection crusade. We just don't think CD copy protection is an effective means to increase sales.