On March 5, 2006, a Protection Technology employee posted a link to a torrent search engine for the results of the search for Galactic Civilizations 2, a (commercially successful) game developed by StarDock which does not use mandatory copy prevention, as a demonstration of what a lack of prevention can lead to.It is worth noting that according to Stardock's CEO Brad Wardell, as of March 2008, Galactic Civilizations II has sold around 300,000 copies in total, bringing in an eight-figure revenue, when the budget was less than $1 million.StarForce later issued an apology for this act after it received a great deal of criticism on the Internet.