). I agree about the Starforce thing. I just remove it once a week. Its causing problems with burning CDs and DVDs, but Starforce says it doesnt. "It is obvious that all the rumors around StarForce hazards are spread by international piracy groups. Our recent contest has just proven that StarForce does not damage optical drives." From http://www.onlinesecurity-on.com/protect.phtml?c=55Didnt know that PC Gamer magazine was a software piracy group
!"Here's what Greg Vederman, PC Gamer editor-in-chief, experienced:
I'm okay with that in theory, but some of these anti-piracy software programs are so potent that they cause issues for legitimate game buyers. One of the leading brands, StarForce, is notorious for not only making it difficult for a small percentage of legitimate users to load up StarForce-protected games, but also for leaving potentially problem-causing StarForce software behind on your PC, even after you've deleted the game it was protecting. And this isn't just some story that I've read about online or in emails from readers. No, it happened to me.
Last year, my work PC suddenly began blue-screening (crashing) any time I popped an audio CD into either of my two optical drives. I went online and learned that other people were having this problem and that it appeared to be StarForce-related. Deleting my StarForce-protected games did nothing. I had to run a StarForce-removal utility before my system - filled only with legal, licensed software - could play audio CDs again."
From http://www.glop.org/starforce/
Heres a link to the forum http://www.glop.org/forum/viewforum.php?id=11