Yeah, and I offer 1000 USD to people who can prove to me in a reproducable way, without the need for an expensive laboratory, that bio-engineered vegetables, when eaten, are bad for human health...
There are so many variables that need to be taken into account when reproducing such mystic bugs: ALL hardware parts in the PC, the operating system (and service pack), ALL installed software, ALL configuration settings, ALL currently running software etc. etc. The more sophisticated the system, the harder to find the bugs. And, in the case of low-level software like the Starforce copy protection, the whole system can affect it and can be affected by it! For this exact reason, if "normal" software needs to be written carefully and still some bugs may remain in it, such low-level software must be written EXTREMELY carefully and NO BUGS may remain in it. I have pretty much faith in Russians, probably the best programmers/hackers/coders in the world, though, but only when creating free software, not when creating software for companies, under the supervision of MANAGERS (ARGH, kill'em all, let god sort'em out!)...
Also, it may be possible that those errors with Starforce existed only in the past and have been fixed already in the latest versions, under the title of "more compatibility". (Along with making the copy protection even more secure...)
Most users, affected by Starforce, are everyday people, with (almost) absolutely no idea about computing. They will definitely not be able to find such bugs; all they will see that their PC doesn't work as well anymore as before and they won't even know the reason for it. (I would say, many PC repair shops wouldn't find it out either, knowing the average intelligence level of repairmen.) Those people who definitely could find bugs are professional hackers who, actually, know how Starforce works. But I don't think these people would go public: would you like the offer to change to 1000 USD
fine and 2
years of lodging but in the
jail rather than a hotel?
I've seen such an offer - crack the copy protection and wits lots of money - at a computing conference, about a decade ago. My schoolmate and I had a look at it and understood that it can't be cracked in a single day, as long as the conference existed. And we havne't had our hacking tools with us either... So, we told the company representatives to kindly f*ck off and left...
This whole offer is just boasting around, nothing more. Bugs in such a complicated software cannot be proven or reproduced as easily as the offer expects.