Well, seeing there has been so much talk around these forums about Starforce this may be of some help to people to understand about the protection.
http://www.digit-life.com/articles2/starforcecdr
This also gives a good indication that there is bound to be some type of CD-R out there that has similar properties to this Starforce CD-R they speak of in the article, it's just a matter of finding what media is going to work.
It's only a matter of time before someone comes out with a universal fix for Starforce, sure they can create new versions, but new fixes are just as easily made.