Isn't Starforce Illegal?

[Eagle]

StarForce sucks.

It doesnt allow me to play any SF protected game because I only have SCSI CD/DVD devices
Looks like some kind of discrimination .
'You have SCSI, you are bad! SCSI is only used for virtual drives...'

Even StarForce support apologized for that but still couldn't help me.
I would like playing SC:CT

[chaosmaker]

Unfortunately you did agree to install it, its in the EULA, and is considered part of the software you bought.

Uh, no it's not, nowhere in the EULA does it state that I am installing low level drivers, nowhere in the EULA does it state that I am installing starforce, and the next best question would be is. I have XP set-up to prompt me when I am installing drivers that aren't WHQL approved, now you tell me why starforce doesn't prompt me or warn me when installing their drivers, how is it bypassing a Microsoft security setting? Now this is questionable.

[puppeteer666]

Bottom line is to much pirating they had to come up with something I think this is just the begining things will get worse if all the release groups don't slow down.

[Killpuppy]

protection will get commonly heavier (PC and DVD both) but

more protection = more crackers = more jacked relese posisbilities
the industry is hurting themselves spending all the money they make on researching protection and hassling the BUYERS for useing no-cd cracks to simplify the load times, etc

[kendrick]

agreed I probably have 500+ cd's for games with 20 on at any time forget changing disks..

also has any one tryed to pull the disk from linux? i would suspect that would give a properly clean pull