Playing "Starforce" protected games. Guide please!

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Hello,


Since I have read about "Starforce" creating problems with one's system and damaging the optical drives I stopped buying games with this protection. But before knowing about "Starforce" I had bought a game "Superpower 2" as well as one of my friends sent me "Colin Mcrae's Dirt" which I didn't play yet but saw a friend on mine playing on Xbox and it was great. More another game which I dearly wish to play is being released by June called "Commander in Chief", the English version of "Mission President", a geopolitical game. The problem is sometimes irresistable titles come with "Starforce" but we can not play them for the safety of our PCs. Now what I wish to ask is is there some way with which we could play "Starforce" protected games as well as keep our systems and optical drives safe from "Starforce" related problems? I have googled a lot but could not find any solution. If any great soul here knows if that is possible and how, I would appreciate a lot if they could inform. With my best regards and I hope there might be some way.