Besides there's probably a high number of users who are tired of:
1.waiting minutes for a disc validation
2.booting and rebooting everytime they install a sf-protected game
3.loosing the complete control of their pc\os
4.having their hardware damaged by starforce virus (oooops, driver.)
Defeating piracy is not really a good excuse to not guarantee to legit users QUALITY and SAFETY anymore. A good protection shouldn't have hard&soft compatibility issues; if piracy "harms consumers as well as legitimate developers", Starforce harms "warez users as well as legitimate players".
And remember, even if in most cases to play backups it's needed to unplug ide drives, in some cases people who have original copies are obliged to buy new drives cause starforce broke theirs (The same thing happened to me with Still Life).
Go checking Ubisoft Official Forum: you'll read a lot of comments of people disappointed by the choice of SF3 for POP - The Two Trones: maybe they're all game downloaders, but does it really matter for an honest gamer who would like to play peacefully, already having to struggle with graphucz\control\etc. settings? I guess not, and that's why I'll go for the Xbox version of the game. But this is a compromise, not a solution.
