I think you should add Prince of Persia the Two Thrones in the list, I didn't find it there. I've been buying originals since 1997 and only originals. I've Always backed them up and never had any problems with any of them (my originals for C&C: Red Alert are still in their original case, thanks to back-up cds!!). Anyway, I bought a copy of POP3 online cause before you could lay your hands on an original here in Mauritius the game could have been outdated by more than 6 months and illegal copies outspreading in the wild!
The game arrived this week. I installed it ASAP, eager to find out what would happen in this last episode of POP, played the game once without problem, and then came back-up time! And for a sure thing, my once stable machine started to play tricks on me. Sometimes I had to reboot my machine only to GET INTO Windows, let alone use any application. And after the successful boot out of 3, it was more like a 'try and die' game I played to be able to use my PC.
POP3 was the first Starforce protected game I bought, and it will undoubtedly be the last!
Die StarForce, die!!
P.S: If it's not obvious enough, it a vote
P.P.S: we are an army of forks and spikes against swords and canons. But hey! That's how they won the French Revolution. So let's poke our forks into Starforce's belly
