[DarkLeftos]

Welcome to the forums ItsGreekToMe, although I'm Greek... lol

GTA:SA has been finally confirmed to use SecuROM 7 plus some DVD checks, so it's going to be cracked hopefully.

Warez is not going to stop, whether we like it or not.

But StarForce is not the silver lining between backups and good protection.

As soon as it is installed, it disables DPM measurement so you can't make a working backup in Alcohol. So either you make the backup BEFORE you play the game for the first time and buy a USB DVD drive, or else you have to find an uninfected PC to make the backup.

I am certainly not willing to spend my money (which at my age I can't earn really quickly) on a USB drive which will be of no use to me, as I have two perfect working DVD and DVD+-RW drives which costed me 200 euros at the time I bought them.

If StarForce has the USB trick as the only way to make a backup, next time they decide to protect a game, please put a sign in the installation about the virus it's going to install, and give me a USB drive with it.

As soon as people get to know how much bad Starforce can cause on their computer, some companies are going to be in a lot of pain due to low sales.

As for other consequences of Starforce, it has high incompatibility with some hardware combinations (heck, 2 of my legally bought Starforce games won't even play! how's that?), and has been known to wipe USB mini-drives.

If you do a little search around, I'm sure you'll find more.