you can download the client from battle.net for free, but you will have to purchase a license from blizzard to play.
can't
First off, you can play Starcraft by downloading the torrents. If you have a friend who has Starcraft, upload his number then you can download free, legal copies of Starcraft (10 spawns from a single CD).
Yes, but so far, you can only download they Starcraft 2 Beta version.
It's a really good game. You should buy it but go ahead in piratebay.org and download the torrent.
Type battlenet into Google and download the game client from the website. It's free to play the starter edition.
Legally, there aren't any options, but torrent sites are your next best choice. For example, you can google "Starcraft torrent download" or something similar.
yes
You can't. Starcraft 2 is an online game which you need a valid license to play.
When opening StarCraft 2, the client automatically checks for patches and updates accordingly. If the game runs without updating, then you are up to date!
On Amazon.com they have a PC-Mac (OS X) version of Starcraft (the battle chest) for only 20 dollars. If the game is actually meant for OS9, then you can download a free starcraft osx installer from the apple games website.
just search at google "free starcraft maps download" but there are other maps not search by this phrase like aeon of strife, fastest map ever(maybe?)
if you buy a cd of it yes