[TippeX]

well, most protection issues are generally avoidable by using the original disk, however i do agree software like starforce is a bit too intrusive / invasive, i can understand using drivers in protections (but nowadays any good cracker will know ring 0 and have a fair understanding of it, which in essence reduces the 'power' of the protection using drivers...) but thankfully the 'trend' seems to be dying, the latest rumor was that starforce was also dropping its driver usage, which would be nice to see, and then protect cd, tages etc might also do the same..