Dreamfall The Longest Journey - UK version has Starforce 3 - Help!

[martianrobot]

Help!

I just bought Dreamfall from UK store for £29.99 after returning another game that had Starforce 3 'protection'. I refuse to install any game that uses this as last time I installed a game (X3 Reunion) with this monstrosity of a protection system it destroyed my DVD-RW drive.

I thought I would be okay as the gamecopyworld website says that English versions of this game are protected by Securom and only the Russian version uses Starfarce.

However, after discovering that the fixed EXE's don't work, I found out that the version of Dreamfall I purchased uses Starforce with the build signature of 3.07.016.004, 02.05.06

I am gutted.

I always buy games and NEVER download pirated software, but I do like to play without the CD so always use no-cd hacks. Can anybody tell me any way around this horrendous protection system so I don't have to either (1) risk destroying another DVD-RW drive or (2) return this great game to the shop?