Copy games crack?

StarForce is a controversial software copy prevention brand by the Russian developer Protection Technology, and considered by many to be malware. Its various implementations are compatible with different versions of the Microsoft Windows operating systems. Its main strength lies in wrapping executable and DLL files using byte-code, interpreted through its own virtual machine. StarForce is said to be very difficult to reverse engineer, however games using the protection-scheme are still being copied and cracked. The difficulty of making a crack is highly dependent on which StarForce product has been implemented and how many times the protection scheme is used within the game executable.